--- title: Customizing blogs url: https://support.troopthemes.com/guide/beyond/customizing-blog/ theme: Beyond theme_styles: Fleur --- # Customizing blogs in Beyond Blog posts, tags, excerpts, and featured images live in Shopify admin under **Content**. The theme controls how those posts appear: the blog grid, article page, and the **Blog posts** section you can add to other templates. **Content** → **Blog posts** for writing and tagging. **Edit theme** → **Default blog** or **Default article** for layout. Post body copy, checkout, and SEO titles are unchanged. > **Info** > > Visit Shopify's help centre for an extensive guide on [adding and managing blog posts](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/blogs/writing-blogs/working-with-blog-posts). ## Write and tag posts (Beyond) Open **Content** → **Blog posts**. Create or edit a post to set the title, body, excerpt, tags, and featured image. Tags do two jobs in the theme: - They appear in the blog page tag filter (if that filter is on). - The **Blog posts** section can limit itself to articles that share one tag. Use **Manage blogs** on that same admin page to rename a blog or turn comments on. ## Blog page (Beyond) **Edit theme** → template selector → **Blogs** → **Default blog** → **Blog**. Posts list in reverse chronological order (newest first). Pagination appears when there are more posts than one page. ### Grid (Beyond) - **Columns**: 1 to 4 on desktop. On mobile, 1 or 2. - **Row layout**: **Evenly spaced** keeps rows aligned. **Staggered** packs cards like masonry. - **Maximum container width**: Extra small through Full width, same control as other sections. Full width lets the grid run edge to edge. - **Full width** (under **Mobile**): lets cards bleed to the screen edge on small devices. Card image crop is **Theme settings** → **Images** → **Article image size**, not this section. Natural keeps each featured image’s own ratio. A fixed ratio (Square, Landscape, or Portrait) makes a stricter grid. For a uniform grid, shoot featured images to the same ratio as **Article image size**. Mixed ratios look calmer with Natural, or with **Staggered** row layout. Export sizes: [What image sizes should I use?](https://support.troopthemes.com/faqs/what-image-sizes-should-i-use/). ### Title, filter, and RSS (Beyond) - **Show blog title**: the blog’s name from admin (for example Journal), not each article title. - **Show tag filter**: a dropdown of article tags. Turn this off if you do not want customers to filter the index. - **Show RSS**: a feed link in the blog footer. To keep internal tags out of that filter, open **Theme settings** → **Blog** → **Hide tags from tag filter**. Enter a comma-separated list. The default is `featured, pinned`. Matching is not case-sensitive (`pinned` and `Pinned` both hide). ### What each card shows (Beyond) On the **Blog** section: - **Show article heading**: the post title. **Article heading type** is Medium or Small. - **Show blog date** and **Show author** - **Show excerpt**: the excerpt from the post editor, or a short trim of the body if the excerpt is empty. - **Show button**: the continue-reading link. That label is [default theme content](https://support.troopthemes.com/guide/beyond/change-default-text/); search **continue**. If **Show article heading** and **Show button** are both off, **Show excerpt** outputs the full article body on the blog page instead of a truncated excerpt. That is how an editorial index can read as captions under images, without a title or button on each card. **Heading type** styles the blog title (Banner, Featured, Large, or Medium) when **Show blog title** is on. Spacing above and below follows the same scale as other sections. See Spacing and layout in your theme guide. ## Blog posts section (Beyond) **Edit theme** → **Add section** → **Blog posts**. Add it to the homepage or any other template. This is not the blog index. - **Choose blog**: which blog to pull from. - **Filter by tag**: only articles with this tag appear (up to three). The default is `pinned`. Change the field, or tag posts to match it, in **Content** → **Blog posts**. If no posts have that tag, the section falls back to the latest three articles. - **Show button**, **Show date**, and **Show excerpt** control the cards in this section. - **Media layout** (under **Mobile**): Slideshow or Grid. Tag spelling must match the filter field. `pinned` and `Pinned` are treated the same. ## Article page (Beyond) **Edit theme** → template selector → **Blog posts** → **Default article**. The **Article** section shows the title, date, author, tags, sharing links, and the post body. It does not place the featured image. The featured image still matters: blog cards use it, cropped by **Article image size**. To show it as a banner on the article page, add an image section (often **Image with text overlay**) above the **Article** section and connect the image to the article’s featured image. You can remove that section if you want a text-only article. On the **Article** section: - **Show title**, **Heading type**, and **Heading alignment** - **Show article date** and **Show author** - **Show article tags**: tags you hid in **Theme settings** → **Blog** stay hidden here too. - Sharing: Facebook, 𝕏, Pinterest, email, and link. Turn each one off independently. **Maximum container width** on this section has no Full width option (Extra small through Extra large). A narrower width keeps article copy readable. The template can also include: - **Recent articles**: nearby posts from the same blog. - **Comments**: Shopify’s comment form, or Disqus if you enable it on the section. Comments must be turned on for that blog in **Content** → **Blog posts** → **Manage blogs**. You can add other sections to the article template the same way as a page. See [Working with templates](https://support.troopthemes.com/guide/beyond/working-with-templates/). ### Images in the post body (Beyond) When you insert an image in **Content** → **Blog posts**, set the size to **Original** so it spans the article column. Smaller presets can look cropped or undersized. ## Ask Sidekick (Beyond) Open [Sidekick](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/shopify-admin/productivity-tools/sidekick) from the icon in your Shopify admin, then ask it to draft a blog post from a topic and a few notes. > "Write a post about caring for our candles, aimed at new customers." Use it for a first draft or when you're stuck on an opening paragraph, then edit it in your own voice before publishing, Sidekick's content generation is meant as a starting point, not a final draft. ## Troubleshooting (Beyond) - **Can't find Blog posts**: they are no longer under **Online Store**. Open **Content** → **Blog posts**. Use **Manage blogs** there to rename a blog or change comments. - **Pinned posts missing from the homepage**: **Filter by tag** is on the **Blog posts** section, not the blog index. The tag on the article must match that field. - **Tag still shows in the filter**: add it to **Theme settings** → **Blog** → **Hide tags from tag filter**, comma-separated. The blog section’s **Show tag filter** must be on for the dropdown to appear at all. - **Grid looks uneven**: featured images have mixed ratios, or **Row layout** is **Staggered**. Use the same crop and **Evenly spaced** for a strict grid, or keep mixed ratios on purpose. - **Cards look cropped**: **Theme settings** → **Images** → **Article image size**, not the post editor. - **No featured image on the article page**: the **Article** section does not display it. Add an image section on the article template, or check that the post has a featured image in **Content** → **Blog posts**. - **Embedded images look cropped**: in the article editor, set the image size to **Original**, not a small preset. - **Comment form missing**: comments are off for that blog in **Manage blogs**, or the **Comments** section is hidden or removed from the article template. - **Continue reading wording**: [default theme content](https://support.troopthemes.com/guide/beyond/change-default-text/), not the Blog section.