Writing blog articles
News and articles for your storefront — event write-ups, restock announcements, deck guides. Needs the Blog feature.
Field by field
| Field | What to put |
|---|---|
| Title | The headline. |
| Excerpt | One or two lines summarising the post — shown on the blog index and used as the page description if you leave SEO description blank. |
| Content | The article itself, with formatting, links, lists and images. |
| Featured image | The picture shown on the index and when the link is shared. |
| Category | Groups posts — "News", "Events", "Strategy". |
| Featured | Flags a post for wherever your theme highlights one. |
| SEO title / description | Optional overrides for search engines. Leave blank and they default to the title and excerpt. |
The slug
The article's web address. It follows the title until you touch it, and stops following the moment you do — so a headline you tweak after publishing doesn't quietly move the page out from under anyone who linked to it.
Draft and preview
A post stays a draft until you tick Published and save. Preview live opens it as customers will see it — worth a look before publishing, especially if you've pasted from a word processor.
Unticking Published again takes it off the blog index and off its own address: the link stops being a page at all rather than staying quietly reachable. Use it for something published by mistake.
Saving
This editor is quiet when it works — a successful save simply puts the article back in the list on the left. If something is wrong you get a red message instead, so no message is the good outcome.