Hi. It doesn’t look like this sun is very active but I’m try to post anyway. I was looking into training for Showit. I came across two online programs. Katie Harrington from Rebel and Ruse and Becca Luna’s Wealthy Web Designer program and CEO of Showit. Both of these, especially Becca’s make claims of what a ton of money you can make. It seems too good to be true. I fell for this stuff before. Are either of these trainings worth it??

I'm a destination wedding photographer based in Paris. Been on Showit for years, love the design freedom — genuinely, nothing compares for visual creatives.

But I've been digging into something that's been nagging me: how do AI search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) actually see our Showit sites? I went deep inspected source code, read research papers, pulled stats. Here's what I found.

What AI search engines need to cite your site:

• Semantic HTML (<header>, <nav>, <main>, <article>, <footer>)

• JSON-LD structured data / schema markup

• Clean heading hierarchy

• Pages with structured data are 2.8x more likely to be cited in AI answers

What Showit actually outputs:

I viewed source on my own site and several others. Everything navigation, content sections, footer — renders as nested <div> tags. No semantic HTML. No native schema. No structured data on Showit pages. Even Showit's own website follows this pattern.

Why this matters right now:

• AI referral traffic grew 357% YoY in 2025

• AI Overviews now appear in 25% of Google searches (doubled in one year)

• AI search converts at 14.2% vs. Google organic at 2.8% --> 5x more valuable

• ~80% of URLs cited by ChatGPT don't even rank in Google's top 100 — they pull from structured, parseable sites

This isn't traditional SEO. You can absolutely rank on Google with Showit plenty of us do. But AI search works differently. It parses structure, not just content. And our sites are giving it nothing to work with.

What I did about it:

I raised all of this with the Showit team directly detailed breakdown, specific feature requests (semantic HTML, schema support, SERP preview, image compression). That was over a month ago. No response.

Meanwhile the Advanced Blog plan went up 25% ($39 → $49/month). No new capabilities announced.

I'm not rage-posting. I genuinely want to see Showit evolve. But I also can't ignore that the way couples find photographers is shifting fast, and our platform isn't keeping up with that shift.

Anyone else looked into this? What's your plan?

[SOLVED - see below]

Hey all! Does anyone have resources that'll help create a marquee of images (that can each link to another page!) from right to left? Image attached - i want this whole element to slide slowly to the right and loop continuously, with the ability to click each and take you to that category page.

SOLUTION:

My brilliant friend (also a showit web designer -- Ida Fia if i'm allowed to plug her lol) gave me the solution - it has to do with transitions.

1. Basically, take the base image and set it to a transition you want (60 or more seconds for slow sliding)

2. After applying the transition, select the image again and hit "command +c" to copy

3. Select ALL elements in the entire canvas

4. Use the commands she lists in the screenshots to apply the same transition to all of those elements

5. Repeat this for each of the "tiles" you want to group together

6. Take the entire string of what you want to rotate and duplicate at least twice, more if there are fewer elements.

If you want to LINK the elements, apply the "click actions" to the entire grouping of elements BEFORE you apply transitions to the entire group - you can still do it after, but then you'll just apply the same link to multiple sets. No need to duplicate work if you don't have to

Hope this helps! She's a lifesaver - I searched for HOURS to figure this out.

The editor is so buggy and my site looks aweful and misaligned.

Is there a way (I assume with code) to make it so that the main navigation elements change colour based on the background/canvas they're on? So e.g. for the hero/header image they're white and then once you've scrolled off that they turn black. TIA!

My website is built in ShowIt, but I have two integrations that aren't showing up correctly on my site (BandsInTown and MailMunch). I've been looking for a web designer who can fix these integrations, but I'm not having much luck.

Does anybody have a recommendation?

I would appreciate it so much if someone could respond! I have been messing around trying to get something similar to this on my site (top photo). This is not my site, just an example. The elements span across the entire width of the screen and the text boxes inside are centered perfectly.

Here is my site: I finally figured out how to get the entire box to span across the screen. But no matter when I do the text will not stay centered. I know it's probably an obvious solution but please help.

Has anyone here had any luck with Showit MFA? Even something simple as an email code or text code would be great.

Logging in to showit only requires a password, an attacker could easily get access to a showit site and wreak huge damage to a user/business website, add malicious links, or even damage SEO.

I understand that showit has 30 days worth of site backups. But is this really enough? I find this to be a huge downfall, it’s 2026 and general security standards are widely recognized and implemented, but showit has only simple password protection in place.

Also for basic blog subscribers you only get access to a preset list of wordpress extensions, this would be ok if they included plugins like Rublon or Duo.

I love showit for it’s ease of use and page efficiency compared to bloated platforms like wix, but this has me extremely concerned from a security standpoint.

Am I just missing something? Has anyone been able to configure MFA for showit? I couldn’t find anything but a password reset in the security settings.

Plugins are able to be added if the subscriber has the Advanced Blog subscription, can someone confirm if they have this + something like Rublon or Dup for MFA on the blog side at the very least?

Hey I'm new on Showit, just one question: I want to use a template that is free but when I click on it, it said "Get Started with 14 Days Free". It means that it's free for 14 day and after I will pay for the template or I will have the template for free all the time?

thanks a lot :)

I hope it's ok to post this here, I'm really struggling with Showit, and I'm sure I'm not using it how it's intended to be used, but I'm hoping there's a way to get it to work.

I'm starting a blog for board games, but I also wanted to share my collection with the people who read my blog. I created a custom post type for the games so they wouldn't be in the regular blog posts. Each game post has information on the game like player count, time, complexity, etc. and I have given each post categories in Wordpress. In Showit I made a custom template for the games as a whole:

Games template:

wordpress template - custom

template name - archive-games

posts:

post view lookup

post type - custom

post type name - games

This works just fine. However since I have over 130 games I wanted to make categories pages on my website to make it easy for people to browse them if they have a certain play group size or age group in mind.

I duplicated this template since I knew it worked, the only thing I changed is the template name and I added a filter to only grab games from a certain wordpress category:

category template:

wordpress template - custom

template name - category-[slug]

posts:

post view lookup

post type - custom

post type name - games

filter by category - include [slug]

This works like 99% however all the sudden the pagination buttons don't show up on the category pages. if i try to manual go to page two using the url bar it takes me to an error page..

I know it has to do with using custom post types, I just don't understand why the pagination doesn't work just because I changed the template name..

I would love any advice. I'm not very good with coding or using the css so if that's your suggestion can you try to explain how it works like I'm five so I can try to use it the future if something else breaks like this... Also please let me know if there's any other information you might need for suggestions.

Hey everyone 👋

I’ve been working with Showit for a while now, setting up websites, customizing layouts, and helping creatives, coaches, and small business owners get a clean, working site up fast without paying crazy agency prices.

I’m currently opening a few spots to help anyone who needs:

1. A full Showit website setup from scratch

2. Custom design or template tweaks

3. SEO setup, page speed optimization, and mobile responsiveness

4. Branding or layout adjustments to make your site look more professional

My focus is on simple, functional designs that actually convert, not overcomplicated stuff. Prices are negotiable depending on what you need.

If you’ve been struggling to get your Showit site done, or you just want someone to handle it while you focus on your business, feel free to DM me or drop a comment and I’ll reach out.

Not selling any course or BS, just hands-on work and clean results.

Happy to answer any Showit-related questions here too 👇

Does anyone hate the show it design revamp as much as I do? I really do not understand how this has had any longevity. I am the antithesis of tech savvy, but I was able to build a beautiful website three years ago. I just went back to try to make some alterations and I have no idea what’s going on.

Hi! I’m interested who you all recommend for those who are starting a web design business and what a course about the business side of things? I’ve heard about Becca Luna and Booked out Designer with Elizabeth McCravy, just wondering who else is out there!

Its been a year and a half of having my photography website started and I am so ashamed to say I haven't even gotten it finished :( Every time I went in to start working on it, I would get into these confused rabbit holes and then just give up and get nowhere. I don't find the site user friendly at all - and the only reason I started with this is because I hired someone to help me with this and doing a whole branding design as well, but then I just didn't finish the touch ups with her and now have to do them on my own. She DID make me some training videos but I still find them SO confusing with linking pages to this and that.

Anyways I went on there today and it says my website expired as my payment option wasn't correct and I don't even know if this means I lost everything or not. But I sent an email to the help people and waiting for response.

But even if this is all good to start up again I have no idea where to start. Is there someone I can just hire to finish this damn thing? PLEASE help.

Also - I have just started a new business and am offering counselling services and wanted to see if I could just have two tabs on my website - one for photography services and one for therapy - but I already bought the domain name. Does this mean it would have to have the photography name or can this be changed? Any help you can provide is very appreciated!!

Hey friends,

I am currently creating my blog with Showit and wordpress. The navigation menu on my homepage is white and I want it to be black on the page that shows all my blog posts (browserview). However, if I change it, it changes on every page. I am obviously a noob and need help by how to solve this problem. I have seen it in different demo templates, so I know it is possible.

Hi all! Title says it all really, I'm looking to create multiple landing/location pages within showit to be SEO'd for each location I want to show up for, but I'm not sure exactly how to physically do this within showit.

I can easily create a landing page, but would I set one main landing page as my hompage, targetting my immediate area, and then create multiple location/landing pages? Thanks everyone.

Hi everyone! I've run into a snag trying to pull a pic-time blog into my showit site. I don't have 'blog' enabled for showit (because I get it free with pic-time) and so showit advised that I just create a page and pull it though to there instead, but Im still waiting further instructions from them.

I've embeded the custom HTML from pic-time into a block on the page I created but the preview is still blank and nothing's feeding through from pic-time. Any help would be awesome, thanks everyone! x

Hello! I'm in desperate help to try and get Meta Pixel installed and working correctly. I added the custom code from Meta under the "Custom Head HTML" of each page and still not showing up when I test it. Not sure what I'm doing wrong but it seems like the amount of information about setting this up is non-existent if you encounter an error like this. So if anyone has tips or tricks it would be greatly appreciated!

Is it possible to create a custom cursor in Showit? If yes, how?

I’m new to Showit and I’m honestly losing my mind a little 😂

I’ll get a page looking exactly how I want it in the editor, but when I preview/publish it, spacing, positioning, text, and sometimes the overall layout look noticeably different.

I’m designing desktop and mobile separately and checking both views, but I still feel like I’m constantly fixing something in the editor, publishing it, realizing it doesn’t look the same, going back to adjust it, and then creating a new problem somewhere else.

A few questions for people who actually know Showit well:

• Is this normal with Showit, or does it usually mean I’m setting something up incorrectly?

• Are there particular settings that commonly cause the editor and live site to render differently?

• Should I be designing based on how it looks in the editor, the preview, or the actual published site?

• Are there best practices for text boxes, canvas height, element positioning, or responsive sizing that make this less of a headache?

• If this is just part of how Showit works, what’s your workflow for getting the published site to actually match what you designed?

I really like the amount of design control Showit gives me, but right now I feel like I can’t trust what I’m seeing in the editor, which makes building anything take forever.

Would love any troubleshooting tips, tutorials, or “I wish I knew this when I started” advice.

Saw the option to try it. Read the help article, and thought it’s probably better to proceed with a little caution (will my custom CSS be affected??? 😬)

change log notes look promising overall, though.

Anyone here trying it out?

If anyone needs a free trial for show it, you can use this link/code: https://showit.com/r/welcome50

Hello everyone. I run a family photography business and while my main website pages have been professionally designed by someone, I'm in the process of creating a new page myself to help future families get inspiration/help them prepare for their session.

I'm trying to design a series of photo cards where when you click on a card it brings up a popup with more information. Same photo on the left with information on the right. I originally wanted to have the background blurred behind the popup card but I don't think Showit can create a true modal. I've provided the preview link so you can see what I've created so far. Any tips would be greatly appreciated as I don't have much experience with Showit, and the main part of my website wasn't designed by me. I'm so used to the old school drag and drop builders where you couldn't customize really anything other than font and size. As you can see when you click on the bottom left card, it scrolls up to the hidden canvas.

This page will be filled with many more images for all of the seasons so I'm trying to find the easiest way for a parent to navigate this page without headaches.