Webflow supports up to two nested collection lists per page, each of which can show up to 10 items within each parent item.
Simply place one collection list inside of another to create this arrangement.
Why limits matter.
Webflow's CMS is dynamic, it's not a static site generator. That's what allows you to add items by API, publish/draft CMS items individually, and set date-based conditional filters. That SSG step is expensive because it means large queries and page assembly on every request. If devs were to increase those limits, sites could easily thrash the servers hard, increase hosting costs, and performance would suffer badly.
It's a tradeoff decision. People wanted to be able to make small CMS changes like edit a blog post, update a price, and to have dynamically updated "upcoming events" pages, without republishing the whole site every 5 mins, so this is what we got.
Feels like a solid balance. In my builds, the need for > 2 nested lists is pretty rare and always handled well using an FS nest approach.
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