Enter the content section
Open the editor, click Content, and select one of Blogs, Deep Pages or Listings, depending on your requirements.
You can create an extremely unique style for how your blog posts, deep pages and listings are presented on your website. The advanced styling area can, at first, look daunting, but once you know what every setting is for, the place suddenly becomes your playground. You will be able to make a wide number of highly specific and effective changes to present blog posts, deep pages and listings in a way that aligns with the wider style of your website and the tone of your business.
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Open the editor, click Content, and select one of Blogs, Deep Pages or Listings, depending on your requirements.
On the left-hand side, click the blue Edit button next to the title of a blog/deep pages/listing whose settings you want to edit.
Use the Modify editors section to add yourself as an author.
You will be given the option to provide a brief bio and upload a selfie.
You can change the layout of your blog post thumbnails from Grid to List format with this dropdown here.
If you scroll down and click the View button, right next to the Edit button, you will be presented with the thumbnails for your blog posts.
The two orange buttons can be clicked to alternate between Grid and List format, so you can see in real time how the two different styles look.
It might be useful to have each category presented down the side of each post, allowing visitors to view the different topics you write about.
If you select yes on the Browse by categories and Show category quantities in brackets options, every category added to the posts in this blog will be available to view on the right hand side when you view the thumbnails for blog posts, as well as the exact number of blog posts that you have in this category.
NB: If you select yes on both of these options, the full summary of each blog post will not be visible due to the categories taking up space on the right.
You can choose different thumbnail styles to suit your preferences.
Use Style 4 to make more specific changes such as:
You can then use these three options to choose:
1. Whether the thumbnail shows the entire image or a cropped version
2. Whether to have the date of the post shown in the thumbnail.
3. Whether the thumbnail image is visible when one goes inside either your blog or one of the posts itself.
Underneath that section, you can use these two dropdowns to choose exactly how you order your blog posts – either by date or by alphabetical order, or by ascending or descending order.
In this area you can make decisions over whether to:
Please note that there are no golden rules when it comes to styling options.
Every website has a different style and tone, so it is down to you, the shop owner, to use these guidelines to familiarise yourself with the software and then, over time, devise specific advanced settings that work for you.
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