Drop - Blogs and Blog posts
Shopify allows you to multiple Blogs in your store. Think of a Blog as a magazine and the Articles within that blog as its pages. The Blog page of your theme will show your articles in a chronological order - most recent first based on the published date of the article.
Blog section settings
The Blog contains settings which control the appearance of its content.
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Posts per page
Choose how many articles / posts are shown on each page before pagination is shown. -
Posts per row
Choose how many articles / posts are shown per row for a stacked or grid layout. -
Image ratio
Use built in tools within the theme to help equalize the image ratios for your blog post featured images for a neater alignment. - Show published date
- Toggle the date the article was published
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Show author
Toggles visibility of the article author -
Show tags
Toggle the visibility of tags applied to the article which can be used to show a filtered view of other posts sharing the same tag. -
Show comment count
Toggle display of the number of comments for each post.
Blog post / Article section settings
Blog posts / articles contain article body and sidebar blocks which allow you to present more content.
Article sidebar
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Author
Shows the author of the current article -
Social share
Add social sharing icons to promote content on Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook -
Recent articles
Show recent articles from the current blog -
Tag list
Show tags from the current article which link to other articles that share the same tags
Article body
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Content
Shows and positions the current article content -
Pagination
Show pagination navigation for article comments -
Comments
Show and position comments for the current article
Tip: When creating Blog posts we recommend adding a featured image and using the excerpt input field, the excerpt will show on your blog page and acts as an introduction to the article.