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Storefront

Blog

Publish articles, manage categories, and create multi-language blog content

The built-in blog lets you publish articles on your storefront to drive traffic, engage customers, and support SEO. Manage your blog from the Storefront > Blog menu, which has two tabs: Posts and Categories.

Categories

Start by creating categories to organize your blog posts. From the Categories tab, choose New Category to add a category.

The categories list shows each category's Name, Date Created, Updated At, Number of Posts, and actions to View On Site, Edit, or delete.

Categories are used to group related posts and can appear as navigation filters on your storefront's blog section, depending on your theme.

Blog Posts

Posts List

The Posts tab lists all blog posts with the following columns:

  • Title — the post headline (linked to the editor)
  • Author — the author's email or name
  • Is Public — whether the post is visible on the storefront
  • Post Date — the published date
  • Actions — View On Site, Edit, or delete

Use the search bar to filter posts by title, and Filters for advanced filtering.

Creating a Post

Choose New Post to open the post editor. The editor has two main sections:

Post Content (left panel):

  • Title — the post headline
  • Content — a rich text editor with formatting options (bold, italic, underline, lists, links, images, video embeds) and a Code view for direct HTML editing

If your store supports multiple languages, language tabs appear on the content editor and you can write translated versions of each post.

Detail (right panel):

  • Slug — a custom URL path for the post (auto-generated from the title if left blank)
  • Author — select the post author from a dropdown
  • Post Date — the published date and time (can be set in the future for scheduled publishing)
  • Is Public — toggle to control whether the post is visible on the storefront
  • Theme Template — override the default blog template with a custom template from your theme, if available
  • Categories — assign one or more categories to the post
  • Featured Image — upload an image to display as the post's thumbnail and header image

Metadata

Each blog post has an optional Metadata section where you can attach custom key-value data. Metadata supports per-language values via language tabs.

SEO

Each post has per-language Meta title and Meta description fields in the SEO section. These control how the post appears in search engine results, separate from the post's visible title and content. See the SEO guide for best practices.

Revisions

Under the More Actions menu, choose View Revisions to see a history of changes to the post. Each revision is listed by user and timestamp, and you can roll back to any previous version.

Blog and Themes

Blog posts published to your storefront carry the styles of your active Store Theme. If your theme includes custom blog templates, you can select them from the Theme Template dropdown in the post editor.

For more on creating custom blog templates, visit the Theme Developers documentation.

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