The like and comment buttons are gone from templates.

Here is what replaced them tested rather than assumed.

The mechanism

Every template gets a post in the Community feed when it's published. That post still has like and comment buttons. A template's like count is a live mirror of the likes on that post.

Like the post, the template count rises by one. Remove the like, it drops back. It updates immediately, in both directions. I checked this on five templates and got the same result each time.

What does not work

Posting a template's share link as a new post likes there don't register against the template

The marketplace link can't be posted to the feed at all

The original publish post can't be re-uploaded

So every template has exactly one post that counts, created once, at publish. There is no way to stack it. I think that's deliberate, and right it removes any reason to spam the feed with the same resource.

Two things worth knowing

The count is not cumulative history. It is the current state of one post, which means it can decrease. Every other signal a template carries only accumulates views, previews, remixes, purchases. Likes are now the only one that can move backwards.

And because that post is created at publish and then sinks down the feed like any other post, the count mostly reflects the reach you had on the day you launched. There is no mechanism to earn more later.

What I could not determine

Whether any of this reaches ranking. The ranking help page still lists likes and comments as signals, and was last updated on 7 August before the buttons were removed. Either the page hasn't caught up, or post-based likes still feed it. That can't be worked out from the outside.

Worth noting: Framer's visibility guide already advises creating a Community post when you publish. This change makes that advice load-bearing rather than optional.

If anyone has a clearer answer on the ranking side, I'd like to hear it. That's the one piece I couldn't test.

The like and comment buttons are gone from templates.

Here is what replaced them tested rather than assumed.

The mechanism

Every template gets a post in the Community feed when it's published. That post still has like and comment buttons. A template's like count is a live mirror of the likes on that post.

Like the post, the template count rises by one. Remove the like, it drops back. It updates immediately, in both directions. I checked this on five templates and got the same result each time.

What does not work

Posting a template's share link as a new post likes there don't register against the template

The marketplace link can't be posted to the feed at all

The original publish post can't be re-uploaded

So every template has exactly one post that counts, created once, at publish. There is no way to stack it. I think that's deliberate, and right it removes any reason to spam the feed with the same resource.

Two things worth knowing

The count is not cumulative history. It is the current state of one post, which means it can decrease. Every other signal a template carries only accumulates views, previews, remixes, purchases. Likes are now the only one that can move backwards.

And because that post is created at publish and then sinks down the feed like any other post, the count mostly reflects the reach you had on the day you launched. There is no mechanism to earn more later.

What I could not determine

Whether any of this reaches ranking. The ranking help page still lists likes and comments as signals, and was last updated on 7 August before the buttons were removed. Either the page hasn't caught up, or post-based likes still feed it. That can't be worked out from the outside.

Worth noting: Framer's visibility guide already advises creating a Community post when you publish. This change makes that advice load-bearing rather than optional.

If anyone has a clearer answer on the ranking side, I'd like to hear it. That's the one piece I couldn't test.