Blog is a great thing to implement on your Magento 2 website. It helps you to create a source of traffic and a free place to promote your store.By creating a blog on Magento 2 you build trust and improve customers’ experience on your website. Magento doesn’t have the blog feature by default. So you need to install it on your instance to be able to manage a blog without relying on some third-party platform.
1. Navigate to Content > Blog > Posts and press the Add New Post button.
2. Enable Post and give it a Title.
3. Select the Category you want to assign the blog post to.
4. Write a blog post in the Content.
5. Add the Short Content.
You can enter short content, only if it is completely different from the main content. The short content will be displayed on the blog index page and post lists.
6. Configure the blog post Display Settings.
- Upload Featured Image, set the Featured Image Alt, and upload Featured List Image (Blog+) together with the Featured List Image Alt (Blog+)
- In the Publish Date field specify the post publish date.
Set the Author of the article.if you leave this field blank, your admin user will be automatically assigned to this post as the author. If you use Blog Extra you can create author page with the social media links and latest articles.
7. Upload photos for Blog Post Media Gallery which will be displayed at the bottom of the post page on the storefront.
8. Configure Search Engine Optimization.
- Set the URL Key which will be used in the article URL. If you leave this field blank, it will be generated automatically.
- Enter the Meta Title which should NOT be more than 50-60 characters. If you don’t indicate this field, the Post Title will be used.
- Set the Meta Description which should NOT be more than 160 characters. If you don’t indicate this field, the Short Content will be used.
- Specify Meta Keywords if needed. Please note that according to the latest SEO practices the usage of Meta Keyword is not recommended.
9.Choose which Websites you want the blog to be posted on.
These are the recommended settings to upload a blog into the site.