Writing quality blog posts can be a wonderful way to engage with your customers. Use Shopify's Blog posts feature to provide more information about your products, such as videos, interviews, and answers to questions. This content serves to add value and build trust in your brand.
Enable special features and adjust settings for Flex's Blog Post template in the theme editor (Customize).
Use the page selector to open Blog posts, then Default blog post.
Banner settings
The Blog post template includes an optional Banner feature to showcase the post's Featured image.
Open Banner in the left sidebar to customize it. To disable the banner, click the eye icon beside the section.
Fallback image
If a blog post doesn't have a featured image, add a Fallback image to display in its place. Click Select Image to connect a fallback image. Enable Dark banner image to add an overlay between the image and post title.
Width
The width can either be set to Standard or Wide. Selecting Wide will spread out the full width of the screen. Selecting Standard will keep the section in a container and not spread the full width.
Banner height
Select Small, Medium, or Large to control the Banner height.
Spacing
You can choose to add space (padding) above and below the section by adjusting the Top spacing and Bottom spacing settings.
Custom CSS
Add Custom CSS to the feature for further tweaking. You can even create your own CSS class here, as well. Check out this article for more information: Flex Guide: Custom CSS Feature
Blog post settings
In the left sidebar, open Blog post to access general settings.
Show breadcrumbs
Enable Show breadcrumbs to include breadcrumb links for your blog posts. Breadcrumb links are a common feature of storefronts allowing customers to retrace their steps and access previous pages. Also known as breadcrumb trails or navigation, this sequence of links provides a visual reference for the customer's current location and where they have been before in your storefront.
Show author
Enable Show author to include the publishing staff member's name for the post.
Show date
Enable Show date to include the date published label for the post.
Show estimated read time
Activate Show estimated read time to include an estimate for reading time based on the length of the post.
Show comment count
Enable Show comment count to display the total number of comments left for the post.
Show tags
Enable Show tags to include a compilation of the blog tags included in each post. Tags can be added and managed in the post editor of your Shopify admin.
Show featured image
Activate Show featured image to display the post's Featured image (set up in the Blog posts admin).
Show sidebar
Enable Show sidebar to activate the blog post sidebar, then use Sidebar position to assign the feature to the Left or Right side of the page.
Width
The width can either be set to Standard or Wide. Selecting Wide will spread out the full width of the screen. Selecting Standard will keep the section in a container and not spread the full width.
Spacing
You can choose to add space (padding) above and below the section by adjusting the Top spacing and Bottom spacing settings.
Custom CSS
Add Custom CSS to the feature for further tweaking. You can even create your own CSS class here, as well. Check out this article for more information: Flex Guide: Custom CSS Feature
Blog post sidebar settings
Build a Sidebar for the template by adding and customizing content blocks. Reveal the sidebar by enabling Show sidebar in the main settings.
Click (+) Add block, then select one of the block options:
- Blog post tags
- Custom HTML
- Featured promotion
- Menu
- Newsletter
- Page
- Recent blog posts
- Search form
- Text
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