Framer Unifies Community and Marketplace With a Single Top Bar.

Framer is consolidating two important parts of its ecosystem. Community and Marketplace now use the same top bar, replacing a patchwork of side, bottom, and navigation bars with one navigation model.

The website builder announced the change on LinkedIn, alongside two related interface updates. Resource and post pages now open as full pages, while the category structure has been substantially simplified. Together, the changes are intended to make it easier to move between community discussions and downloadable website assets without relearning the interface.

This is more than a cosmetic header change. Framer’s Community and Marketplace serve different purposes, but they increasingly form a connected discovery system. People can find templates, components, plugins, tutorials, and examples, then use community posts to understand how those resources were made or adapted.

Previously, navigation could change depending on where someone was browsing. Framer says the new top bar replaces the side bar, bottom bar, and other navigation bars used across Community and Marketplace. A persistent model should reduce the number of controls competing for attention and make destinations easier to predict.

The practical benefits are clearest for users who frequently switch between the two sections. A designer evaluating a Marketplace resource can move into Community content without encountering an unrelated navigation pattern. Creators publishing resources also get a more coherent environment in which their work can be discovered and discussed.

Framer has been steadily increasing the Marketplace’s visibility. The company previously made Marketplace the default destination for finding site assets, positioning it as a central entry point rather than a separate catalog. Bringing Community into the same navigation system extends that strategy.

Resource and post pages now open as full pages rather than appearing within a more constrained browsing context. That gives individual items clearer URLs and more room for descriptions, previews, creator information, and related content. It should also make shared links feel like destinations in their own right, rather than temporary views layered over a listing.

The category cleanup addresses a separate discovery problem. Large marketplaces and community hubs often accumulate overlapping labels as their content libraries grow. Too many categories can make browsing slower, particularly when users cannot easily distinguish between similar sections. Framer has not provided a detailed before-and-after category list in the supplied announcement, but describes the cleanup as substantial.

For small businesses and independent builders, the update should reduce friction in three common workflows:

• Finding assets: Templates and resources sit within a simpler browsing structure.
• Learning from creators: Community posts can be opened and shared as complete pages.
• Moving between sections: One top bar provides a consistent route through both areas.

The redesign follows Framer’s August Community update, which added saved likes and mobile commerce improvements. Viewed together, the updates suggest Framer is treating discovery, creator content, and asset distribution as parts of the same product surface.

There are still unanswered questions. Framer’s short announcement does not specify whether the navigation is being rolled out in stages, whether creators need to change existing listings, or precisely which categories were merged or removed. It also does not associate the redesign with a paid plan. Users can consult Framer’s full update notes for any additional implementation details.

What is Framer’s unified Community and Marketplace navigation?

It is a shared top bar used across Framer’s Community and Marketplace. It replaces the previous combination of side, bottom, and navigation bars with one consistent navigation model.

What changed when opening Framer resources and posts?

Resource and post pages now open as full pages. This gives each item a more complete destination instead of keeping it inside a narrower browsing view.

Does the Framer navigation update require a paid plan?

Framer’s announcement does not mention pricing or plan restrictions. It presents the change as an update to the Community and Marketplace experience, but does not provide further access details.