Advanced publishing
You can make it easier to manage your blog by using Shopify tools to do the following:
- Create a custom template to layout a blog or an indivdual post in a particular style.
- Set a specific publishing date for posts.
- Publish or unpublish several posts at the same time using a bulk action.
- Invite customers to subscribe to your blog so they'll see your updates.
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Create a new blog template
You can create a template to customize the layout of all of the posts in a blog. For example, you could create a template for a blog that will feature a lot of images on posts, and use that template for all posts.
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Apply a template to a blog
After you create at least one new blog template, you can apply a template to a blog. All of the posts in the blog will display according to the template you set. Using blog templates can be useful when you want the posts to look similar to one another.
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Create a blog post template
You can create a template to customize the layout of individual blog posts. For example, you could create a template for posts that will feature a lot of images, but that you only want to use for some of the posts in a blog.
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Apply a template to a blog post
After you create at least one new template, you can apply a template to an individual post. Only the posts that have the template applied will appear according to the template you set. Using blog post templates can be useful when you want a shortcut to making a blog post look a certain way, but you don't want to use it fore very post in the blog.
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Set a specific publish date for a blog post
You can set a specific publish date for your blog. For example, you can set a post to be published in time for the launch of a new product. You can also backdate a post. Learn more about using future publishing.
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Publish blog posts in bulk
You can use a bulk action to publish multiple blog posts at the same time and make them visible on your online store.
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Unpublish blog posts in bulk
You can use a bulk action to unpublish multiple blog posts at the same time and make them hidden from your online store. This doesn't delete the blog posts from Shopify.
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Invite customers to subscribe to your blog
Shopify automatically produces an RSS feed for every blog that you create, so customers can subscribe to it and receive notifications when you publish a new post. The feed URL is the URL of the blog page with .atom
appended. For example, http://store.myshopify.com/blogs/blogname.atom
. Customers who want to subscribe to your blog can paste the feed URL into a feed reader.
You can include your feed URL in a blog post to invite customers to subscribe to your blog.
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Allow customers to subscribe to your blog feed with FeedBurner
FeedBurner is a third-party service that delivers your blog content to subscribing customers.
If you previously integrated your blog with FeedBurner, then your existing blog and its posts stay connected to FeedBurner.
New or existing blogs that aren't already integrated with FeedBurner can't use the service.