What is the blog page?
The blog page shares insightful and informative content about a store's products, services or news. It's useful in building credibility and trust with customers and can help to establish your brand.
Blogs can also improve a store's search engine optimization (SEO), increasing the chance of the site ranking higher on search engines. This could help drive more traffic to your store.
How to set up the blog page
Steps
- Follow the How to create a blog guide and How to create blog posts guide on the Shopify support site to create blog content.
- Open the Theme Editor and select Blogs > Default blog from the dropdown at the top.
- Click on the Blog pages section on the left hand side. This section represents the entire blog page, and allows various page settings to be customized.
- Selecting the Show tag filter setting enables the tags set up in the Shopify admin area to be displayed.
How to set up the tag filter
If your blog contains lots of blog posts, it may become cumbersome for customers to find the article they're interested in. In this instance, you may want to consider adding tag filters to the blog.
Steps
- Add tags to each article by visiting the Blog posts section in the Shopify admin area. Click on each blog article and add any additional required tags.
See the Creating and using tags in Shopify article for more. - Open the Theme Editor and select Blogs > Default blog from the dropdown at the top.
- Click on the Blog page section on the left hand side.
- Find the Show tags under each article setting and the Show tag filter. The tags will now show at the top of the blog page.
How to customize the cards
Each blog post can have tags, an excerpt, an author, a publication date and a featured image set in the Shopify admin area. To customize how they are displayed in the theme, refer to the various settings in the Blog pages settings.
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FAQs
How do I add additional share links?
Currently the share links are limited to two. If you require more links, then you would need to hire a developer. There are excellent Shopify developers who might be able to help you such as Taskhusky who have worked with our themes for years.
Can I have a full width image as the page header instead of a typical page title?
Yes. You can do this by adding another section above the Blog page section, such as an Image banner section.
In the Blog page section, ensure that the Show the default blog title is unticked. In the Image banner section, within the Heading block settings, tick the Set as page heading (uses h1 tag) setting.
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