Store blog
Your store blog helps customers find you through search engines and gives you a place to write about your products. Manage it in Online store > Blog: write posts, publish or hide them, link them to products, and import or export them.
The blog depends on your plan and needs the blog permission. See Subscription and Staff groups.
Activate your blog
When the blog is off, the page shows Your blog awaits.
Go to Online store > Blog.
Select Activate blog.
Once the blog is on, Categories and Tags appear under Blog in the sidebar.
Help customers find your blog
After your first post, the Make your blog easy to find banner suggests where to link your blog:
In the top menu, from Online store > Menu.
In the footer, from the theme editor's Footer > Links section.
Select Copy blog address to copy your blog's link, which is your store address followed by /blogs.
In your storefront, the blog lists each published post with its title, short description, publish date, cover image and tags, and shows your active categories as tabs at the top. A post's page ends with its related products and suggested posts. The exact layout depends on your theme, on computers and phones alike.
Blog posts list
The list shows your posts, 25 per page by default.
| Tab | Posts it shows |
|---|---|
| All | Every post. |
| Active | Published posts. |
| Archived | Posts you hid from the blog. |
| Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Blog post name | The post's title. |
| Category | The post's category. |
| Created date / Updated date | When the post was created and last changed. |
| Status | A switch that publishes the post or hides it. |
Each row also has View in storefront (for published posts), Delete and Edit.
Search: find posts by name.
Filters: narrow the list by Category, Article tag or Date range.
Sort: order the posts by Created date, Updated date or publish date (Published).
Publish, hide or delete several posts
Select the posts with the checkboxes.
Choose Publish, Hide or Delete, then confirm.
Deleting posts can't be undone.
Write a blog post
Select Create at the top of the page. A draft is created and Create new blog post opens.
Sample data from a demo store. Fill in the sections described below.
Turn on Display blog post on the blog page to publish the post, or leave it off to keep a draft.
Select Save.
Select Preview at the top to show or hide a preview of the post beside the form. It uses a default design; to see the post in your own theme, open it in your storefront after publishing.
Details
| Field | Rules |
|---|---|
| Blog post name | Arabic is required, English is optional. |
| Short preview description | Optional, up to 160 characters per language. Shown with the post in the blog list. |
| Category | Optional. Select Add new category to create one without leaving the post. |
| Tags | Optional. Search and pick several tags, or select Add new tag. |
| Display blog post on the blog page | On publishes the post; off keeps it unpublished. |
Blog content
Blog post cover image: PNG, JPG or SVG, up to 5 MB.
Blog post content (Arabic) is required; Blog post content (English) is optional. The editor formats text, lists, tables, quotes and links.
To add media inside the content, use Insert image (JPEG, JPG, PNG, WEBP, GIF or SVG) or Insert video (MP4, WEBM, OGG or MOV).
Related products
Show products under the post to turn readers into buyers. Choose one option:
Automatically (based on the post content): products are picked from what the post talks about.
Manually (select the products individually): select Select products and pick up to 5 products.
Disabled: no products are shown.
You may also like section
Recommend other posts at the bottom of the post:
Automatically (based on the category & tags): posts that share the category or tags.
Manually (select the blog posts individually): pick up to 5 posts with Select blog posts.
Disabled: no recommendations.
SEO enhancement
| Field | Rules |
|---|---|
| Blog post title | The title search engines show, in Arabic and English. |
| Description | The summary search engines show, up to 127 characters per language. |
| Blog post URL | The end of the post's address, after your store address and /blogs/. |
Keep the search title to about 60 characters and the description short and specific, so search results show them in full.
Import blog posts
Open the more-actions menu at the top of the page and select Import blog posts.
Sample data from a demo store. Under Download the template file, select Download and fill in the template.
Under Upload the file, select Upload and choose your CSV or XLSX file.
Select Import.
The import runs in the background. If it takes a while, the dialog says Import is still running in the background and you can keep working.
Export blog posts
Select Export blog posts in the more-actions menu. The export starts and you are taken to Export requests, where you can download the file when it's ready.
Turn off your blog
Select Disable in the more-actions menu. The blog is turned off right away and the page shows Your blog awaits again. Your posts are kept, and you can bring the blog back with Activate blog.
Control header visibility in the more-actions menu opens Menu, where you can show or hide the blog link in your store's top menu.
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