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Blogs page

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The Blogs page lists your latest blog posts. This guide explains how to set up the blogs page template, and includes tips and recommendations to get you started.

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Quick setup

For the blog page template, you first need to set up blog posts in your Shopify admin. Then, in the theme editor, you can customize the blogs template.

Tip | Check out Shopify's guide on .

Set up blog

Before editing the Blog page template, you need to add at least one blog post in your Shopify admin.

You can add custom Excerpt text. By default, Spark will display the first couple of sentences from your post. You can add a custom excerpt or post tagline.

Shopify | Blog posts are a Shopify feature. See Shopify's guides to and add .

Edit blog page template

The default Blog page template includes display settings for the listed blog post articles, and an option to enable tag navigation.

STEPS

In your theme editor (Customize):

  1. Use the Templates selector to open Blogs > Default blog.

  2. Under Template, click the Blog posts section to open the settings.

  3. Choose whether to Show RSS icon.

    RSS is a way for customers to subscribe to your blog. The people who do, love it. Learn more about it from RSS.com's article .

  4. Choose how many Articles per row should be displayed. (2, 3, or 4.)

  5. To make your blog images a uniform shape and size, select the Image aspect ratio to crop your images to Square, Landscape, or Portrait.

    The default Natural setting will display the original orientation of your image.

  6. Click on the Title block to choose whether to Show published date.

  7. Show blog post excerpts by clicking (+) Add block and selecting Excerpt.

    You can add excerpts when you add or edit the blog post. If you don't do this, Spark automatically adds a preview of the first few sentences and then trails off with a "...".

  8. Click Save.


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