Creating a Shopify Blog Post with PageFly

About PageFly Blog Post Page

PageFly empowers you to craft a visually appealing Shopify blog post page without any coding skills. Our intuitive drag-and-drop interface gives you all the freedom to control the layout and design of your Shopify blog post page.

Follow our comprehensive step-by-step guides to learn how to create a Shopify blog post with PageFly.

Requirements

You can install PageFly Drag & Drop Page Builder for Free here.

How To Create A Shopify Blog Post Page With PageFly

Before going to know how to create a blog post page, this video tutorial will help you to have a clear view of how to create a blog post page:

Step 1: Create A PageFly Blog Post Page

There are 2 ways to create a PageFly blog post page: Create the page from scratch or Create the page from templates

Option 1: Create Page From Scratch

In the PageFly dashboard > head to the Pages > Click on the Create blank page button > Select Blog post to start building your blog post page from scratch

Option 2: Create Page From Templates

Click on Create from template button > Choose Blog post. Once the Page templates is opened, you can pick a suitable PageFly template for your Blog Post page.

In Page templates, you may preview the template by clicking the Preview button then if you decide to use that template, click on Select button to choose and display it in editor

Step 2: Edit Blog Post Page Settings

There are several settings you must make for the Blog post page when you click on Page settings.

Page Title And Page URL

The first configurations you have to do are adding Page title and Page URL for the Blog post page. These parameters will be displayed at the top when you click on Page settings

Themes Sections

In Theme’s section, you will see the Show header and footer option that allows you to to display or hide the header and footer on the blog post page. If you unselect this option, those sections will be removed on your page.

When you select all types of pages – aside from the Password Page – the Header and Footer sections appear by default. After publishing, you can click on Go to theme editor to edit the header and footer in theme editor

Page Optimization

The Page Optimization configures settings for the optimization of your page. It is located in Page Settings’ Optimization tab

You can choose to Enable Image lazyloading for your blog post page. For the page that you set up Lazyload Images on, when you scroll down, the images below will be loaded gradually. It is applicable to all the images such as Collection Image, Background Image, Product Image, etc.

Your page loading speed can be optimized with the help of the Lazyload Images feature. It facilitates quick page loading.

Step 3: Update Contents And Design For Your Shopify Blog Post

We have selected the Cipi template to be used as an example for step 3 because this template can be found in the Blog Post page type. You can use another templates or create your blog post page from a blank page, then add information to suit your store

Here is an overview of the Cipi template.

In the PageFly editor, you can use the Blog Posts element to to display a single blog or a list of blogs from your Shopify store on a page. You also can take some time to check this blog out to understand more about how to make full use of your Blog post page.

Check out this video tutorial about using the Layout element on your page.

Step 4: Save And Publish Your PageFly Blog Post Page

Click on the Save then Publish button to publish your blog post page. You can click on Live view button to see the page in the live

After publish your page, you can go to Page settings > In Blog post source, you can click on Go to linked blog post to configure SEO settings, excerpt, author, parent blog, tags, etc

In Shopify blog post, you can add Featured image, write a summary of the post in Excerpt, assign Tags, edit blog post info and website SEO.

You can also enable Comment for your blog post page. For instance, if I want the comments to be displayed, click on the New blog > In the Comments section on the left screen, choose “Comments are allowed, and are automatically published” option > Click on the Save button.

You can also choose the second option if you don’t want any comments to be automatically published. If you choose this option, you will control and moderate any comments in your blog post.

Another way is you can go to  the Online Store of Shopify admin > Blog posts in the dropdown menu > Manage blogs > New

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Can you do Blog Posts on Shopify?

Yes, you can freely create a blog post on Shopify, as this worldwide online store comes with a built-in blogging engine.

2. Is Shopify blog free?

Yes, it is, if you plan to create a Shopify Blog Post from scratch.

3. Is Shopify Blog SEO friendly?

Shopify is standard for SEO optimization, as it has clean coding and organized structure, however, you cannot install common SEO third-party plug-ins to SEO admin, such as RankMath and YoastSEO… Therefore, you should still have a subdomain parallel with Shopify Online Store to do blog posting for well-SEO-written articles.