It would be great if you need to link to an uploaded Webflow resource (ie. a PDF or other) and have it on your own domain and not have the file name be prepended so "pitchscript.pdf" does not change to "872384029387403298wajlhewuhf_pitchscript.pdf". Especially since people want to host with Webflow fully & not have to put it on an external server.
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So basic. PLEASE add this.
This is a terrible implementation of a simple feature, randomly changing file names from what is uploaded is nonsense. You need a logical name which does not have to be unique and what it names the file on download and a storage name that can have a GUID. This feature is useless as it stands.
Webflow is an amazing product people. Please upvote if you really think this is a crucial feature!
Has this not been resolved after 5 years because tech debt in WebFlow is so bad they can't fix this without massive code rework?
Webflow hasn't responded at all and this suggestion is in the Top 4 pages of the Wishlist. You can see in other comments this has affected their livelihood and they don't even make a comment. This just makes no sense.
There are comments that images on a different cdn doesn't affect SEO, however for PDFs it does.
I strongly upvote this as well. In addition to the other reasons stated (SEO), this also has benefit of those of us using Cloudflare proxying, to benefit from all of its benefits.
Because webflow assets are served out of the assets-global.website-files.com domain, this isn't owned by us so can't be proxied by cloudflare.
I've found other ideas and requests for this going back over 5 years. I don't foresee any hope in this getting fixed... but maybe?
We need this
It's been 5 years and this haven't been fixed yet?.. omg...
Yep we need this as well!
With https://stacket.app you can have ALL assets on your Custom Domain :)
Has this been fixed?
Dealbeaker issue for us too
Agree with what everyone has been saying. This is so unbelievably critical for SEO ranking, branding, and reputation.
Our clients have thousands of published papers and web resources that need to be branded properly. We do not want to have to host our resources on another site... but it may come to that.
Here's a workaround for y'all
1- Upload the document to your asset manager
2- Copy the link of the asset from the asset manager
3- Go to your project settings -> hosting -> scroll down to Redirects
4- Create a new redirect from whatever string you want (make sure there isn't an existing page with the same string) to the link of the asset you copied from asset manager
5- Publish
et Voila, now you have your custom link with your domain name that goes straight to your asset.
Can someone from Webflow weigh in on this? This feature is very much needed.
With this wishlist, do you get to see where it's at in a queue? If it was looked at? Put on a backlog somewhere?
I also just got a very bad email from my client saying that this is not acceptable. I really need this feature (And it sounds like others need it too)!!!
Just got chewed out by our SEO team for not telling them about this asset linking. Feels bad man...
For me this will become a dealbreaker. We wish to send potential customers PDF brochures and not being able to host on our own domain looks very unprofessional. Our customers will wonder why we are sending them to a random domain.
We will likely migrate off of webflow for hosting in the near future if this is not resolved.
Critical feature, especially now. Sites waste load time fetching images at a different URL, rather than on our own domain. Not cool.
I was redirected to this feature request having a look at mine. Need the PDF that opens in a new tab to be on the domain name after the "/", e.g. example.com/document.pdf or at least e.g. example.com/<any_folder_if_need_be>/document.pdf. NOT on webflow.com domain and with any added strings of characters.