Wix Blog: Adding and Setting Up Your Blog
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Wix Blog allows you to share your stories, insights, and updates directly on your website. By adding a blog to your site, you can improve your site's SEO, and engage with your site visitors.
For example, if you're a small business owner, you can use your blog to share industry news, offer tips related to your products or services, and build a loyal community around your brand.
Tips:
- Before you get started, check out our complete step-by-step guide to blogging.
- Discover everything Wix Blog has to offer in our "About Wix Blog" article.
Step 1 | Add Wix Blog to your site
Some templates come with Wix Blog already pre-installed. If you do not have Wix Blog in your list of pages, you can add it from your editor, or directly from the Wix App Market.
Wix Editor
Wix Studio
Wix App Market
Wix App
- Go to your editor.
- Click the Add Elements
icon on the left side of the editor. - Click Blog.
- Click Add to Site.
Note:
When you add Wix Blog, you are asked if you would like to install with or without a Member's Area. This gives members access to several features including the ability to log in, create a public profile and comment on blog posts.
Step 2 | Change the display settings
Inside your editor, you can customize your blog's display settings to include the features you want to show on your blog. Select the information that you want to show on your feed, choose whether or not to display a menu on your blog, and add social share icons.
Note:
You may see different display options depending on the layout you choose. For example, the Side by Side layout lets you display descriptions of posts on your blog, but the Magazine layout does not.
To change the display settings:
- Click your blog feed in your editor.
- Click Settings.
- Click the Display tab.
- Select or deselect the features you want to display in the blog feed or category feed.
Note: You can choose which features appear on the post page. - Scroll down and click Blog Menu.
- Click the Show Blog Menu toggle to show or hide the menu at the top of the post.
- (If enabled) Select or deselect the checkboxes to choose what info you want to show on the menu.
- Click Back.
- Click Social Sharing.
- Click the Enable share & print icons toggle to show or hide social share icons on your posts.
- (If you enabled social share icons) Select or deselect the checkboxes next to each social media network to show or hide it.
Step 3 | Change the layout
From your editor, you can play around and try different layouts to see which best suits your site's style. You can choose a different layout for the All Posts Feed - the main feed of your blog where all of your posts appear, and for the Category Feed - which displays the posts per category.
Note:
We are using the Editorial layout in this article, other layouts may have different options than what is shown here.
To change the layout:
- Click your blog feed in your editor.
- Click Settings.
- Click the Layout tab.
- Choose a layout for the All Posts Feed.
- Choose the Image Ratio for each post.
- Click the feed you want to customize: All Posts feed or Category feed.
- Choose what you want to customize:
Layout settings
Post loading
Step 4 | Customize the design
From your editor, you can change the look and feel of all parts of your blog by customizing the colors and fonts, and button designs.
To customize the design:
- Click your blog feed in your editor.
- Click Settings.
- Click the Design tab.
- Choose what you want to customize:
Navigation
Posts
Category labels
Buttons
Ratings
Video Settings.
Step 5 | Create post categories
Once you've customized your blog feed, you can then create some categories to help structure and organize your blog, which is very useful once it grows bigger.
To create post categories:
- Click the blog in your editor.
- Click Manage Posts.
- Click the Categories tab on the left.
- Click New Category at the top right.
- Enter a category label in the Category Label field (this appears in the navigation menu and at the bottom of blog posts in this category).
- (Optional) Update the category URL.
- Enter the Category Title which appears in search engine results and when sharing a category on social media.
- Enter the Category Description which appears in search engine results and when sharing a category on social media.
- (Optional) Upload a category image which appears when sharing a category on social media.
- Click the Add
icon. - Select an image or upload a new one.
- Click Add to Page.
- Click Save.
- Click the Add
Tip:
After creating your categories, you can click and drag the categories to reorder them.
Step 6 | Create your first blog post
After all the setting up, you are finally ready to start writing posts! You can do this from your site's dashboard, or from your live site.
Tip:
Your blog comes with default content that is full of helpful tips and tricks. Be sure to delete these articles before you publish your blog.
To create your first blog post:
- Click the blog in the Editor and click Manage Posts.
- Click Create New Post and start writing. Learn how to write blog posts.
Tip:
To write posts from your live site, just login to your live site using the email address associated with your Wix account.
FAQs
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