Framer · Keep the site
You are ready to stop depending on Framer hosting as the only place the site stays online. That does not mean scrap the layouts people already use. It means keep the site — the frames, the CMS, the forms — and leave host lock-in behind. This page is that exit: your export or rebuild, your passwords, your publish path, proved before you cancel editor-only Publish.
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Getting Framer out of the host seat means your site can stay online when the editor is closed. You hold the export or rebuild, you can change form secrets yourself, publish runs from your host, and you have already practiced a day without Publish. Exporting pretty frames is not an exit. An exit is a day that still works after you stop opening the project for every release.
Where exits go wrong
Files move. CMS restore, form endpoints, DNS, and the habit of “open Framer and Publish” do not move unless you plan them.
If the domain, DNS, and CMS login still sit under one personal Framer seat, you copied files. You did not leave.
Callbacks and webhooks must accept the new origin before you drain the old one.
If collections only live in the project, moving hosts can leave your copy behind. Export it and test a restore first.
Status, a contact, and a way to unpublish a bad release must live on something the team runs — not in one person’s editor.
The exit we actually run
Export or rebuild, passwords, publish path, and undo — then practice a day without Framer Publish.
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Billing, DNS, and CMS logins leave personal seats.
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Fresh values. Shared vault. Rotate what touched the panel.
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Second engineer clones or rebuilds, publishes, and ships without your Framer login.
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Only then retire editor-only Publish as the recovery playbook.
How to
Cut dependence on Framer hosting. Keep the Sites. Prove a day without Publish.
Step 01
CMS drafts, custom code, form endpoints, unpublished frames.
Step 02
Second admin named. Personal seats off the critical path.
Step 03
No leftover editor context.
Step 04
CMS page, form submit, and undo.
Step 05
Support knows the old recovery habit. Then retire it.
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Bring the Sites and the Publish-only habit. We will say exit vs wrap.
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Because speed inside one editor is not the same as a team-safe host, CMS restore, and publish that survives staff changes. Keep the validated Sites; relocate them onto ground that does not cap growth when you hire.
Export or rebuild map, CMS dumps, form/Auth inventories, custom-code list, and a note of editor-only vs owned modules. Secrets and DNS must not stay trapped in one project panel.
Stay: proven layouts, CMS structure, and journeys that already work. Rebuild: publish path, secret stores, on-call notes, and anything that only existed as panel config.
Usually yes — if DNS and marketing links already sit with the org (or we transfer them). Continuity means no reset of the public site while you professionalize publish.
Bring the Sites list, how forms submit, and who holds the domain. We put owned publish last — and we name the Framer host path you can roll back to.
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