Blog page

The Blog page lists your latest blog posts. The blog page template includes tag navigation and options for how blog posts are displayed.

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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, Stiletto will display the first couple of sentences from your post. You can add a custom excerpt or post tagline.

Blogs are a Shopify feature. See Shopify's guides to create a blog and add blog posts.

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Page layout

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Change the number of articles per page.

_{Click Blog page section to find settings}

Setting	Description	Options
Articles per page	Set the number of articles to display per page.	12 - 36

Posts style

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Click the Blog posts section to customize the appearance of posts:

• Change the image aspect ratio of post images

• Choose which post details to show

Change image aspect ratio

Change the aspect ratio to crop post images to be a uniform shape.

The aspect ratio of an image is the proportion between its width and height (w:h). A square image has equal width and height (1:1), whereas most images are either wider (2:1) or taller (1:2).

_{Click Blog posts section to find settings}

Setting	Description	Options
Image aspect ratio	Select an aspect ratio to crop images to be a uniform shape, or select Natural to display images in their original shape.	Natural Default Portrait (2:3) Square (1:1) Landscape (3:2)

Change blog post details

By default, posts display the title, date, author, and tags. Click Blog posts to choose which blog post details to show.

To edit the post details, go to Online Store > Blog posts from the Shopify admin.

_{Click Blog posts section to find settings}

Setting	Description
Show tags	Shows tags that you've added to posts in the Shopify admin. Go to Online Store > Blog posts to edit Tags for each post. Go to Theme settings > Blog to limit which tags are shown.
Show author	Display the name of who created the blog post.
Show published date	Display the date when the post was published.
Show excerpt	When checked, the first few lines of the post will appear below. You can add a custom excerpt to blog posts in your Shopify admin.

Set up tag navigation

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The Blog page lets customers filter blog posts by category. Add tags to your blog posts in the Shopify admin to display a row or dropdown menu of article categories.

Limit tags shown

You may not want to show all tags that you've added in your Shopify admin. To limit which tags are shown as article categories, go to Theme settings > Blog.

In the Article categories field, enter the tags you want to use in a comma-separated list. For example: Guides, News, Interviews.

Article categories option in theme settings > blog

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Related links

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