Framer removed four of my templates. Here's what I fixed.
On Oct 29, 2026, Framer's moderators took four of my templates off the Marketplace. All four were back within two days. These are the real problems they found, and what fixed each one.
By Shashank Thigale, a Framer developer in Pune, India. Published November 9, 2026.
What happened
After community reports, Framer removed Quinta, Bower, Nacre Lite and Quinta Lite. Their Marketplace pages switched to "Template unavailable", and I took their store links off this site until they were back. My other templates and all my components stayed live.
Nothing was broken in the obvious sense: every page loaded and looked right on my laptop. The problems were small details that show up only at certain widths, on hover, or deep inside the CMS.
The problems, and the fixes
1. A button that linked to a deleted page
In Quinta Lite, a retreat card still linked to a CMS detail page I had deleted. Framer marks that link as "Missing" and publishes it as a link to nothing, so the "Inquire about dates" button inside the card became dead, and Framer warned about a link inside a link. Removing the old link on every breakpoint fixed both.
2. Links and buttons with no hover state
Framer's template best practices expect every link and button to react on hover. Mine mostly did, but not all: submit buttons in their "Incomplete" state, linked cards, filter buttons in Bower, and buttons inside my own code components had none. In Quinta I went through all 106 links until every one had a hover.
3. Images far too heavy
One journal photo in Bower was 9.5 MB. Quinta's hero was 1.3 MB, and several CMS photos were over 800 KB. Exporting at about 1800 px with moderate JPEG quality brought them down to between about 290 and 720 KB with no visible difference, and the 9.5 MB photo to 426 KB.
4. Hover zooms that spilled over text
Quinta's cards grew their whole image frame on hover, so a photo pushed 18 to 22 px past its spot and over the text next to it. The moderator asked for the zoom to stay inside its frame. The fix: the frame stays still with Clip on, and a new inner layer carries the photo and the zoom. A category pill that zoomed with the photo and got cut off at the corner moved back onto the still frame.
5. A translated label that didn't fit
Bower has a Spanish page. Its form button's "Incomplete" label was longer than the English one and overflowed the button. A text style that wraps fixed it.
How the relisting went
I fixed one template at a time, checked each against Framer's template best practices and the supplemental template checklist, and published. Then I sent one reply on the moderator's thread with the live link to each fixed template. Quinta Lite was reinstated the next evening, Bower and Nacre Lite about two hours after that, and Quinta on Oct 31 after the hover zoom fix.
What I check before every submission now
- No links to deleted or unpublished pages, including links set inside CMS cards
- A hover state on every link and button, in every state, including forms and code components
- Every image under 800 KB at the size Framer serves
- Hover effects that stay inside their frame and never cover text
- Every page at every width, from a 320 px phone to a 2560 px monitor, including translated pages
Checking all of that by hand meant opening every page at every width, so I turned the checks into Template QA. It opens every page of a published Framer site at eight widths and reports each problem with a screenshot and the fix. You can check your home page free with your email.
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