Blog categories

You can create blog categories under this menu item.

You can then assign blog entries to these categories.

If you click "Create" you can add a new category

Important information:

Fill out fields like title, sub headline, description, SEO. Without these fields, a blog category will not be displayed correctly in the frontend.

Title:

Category name

Subheadline:

Category subtitle

Description

Description of the category

Active: Activate the category

Seo Url: Under the SEO tab, you can make SEO-specific settings. In addition, set a specific SEO URL.

In general, SEO URLs for blog categories and entries are generated via Settings > Seo. However, if you specify an SEO Url here, it will be used as the SEO Url. Make sure to enter a correct SEO URL.

Position:

Sorting order

Image size:

This setting is for the categories templates Parallax, Cover and Image and Text

Maximum height

This setting is for the categories templates Parallax, Cover and Image and Text

Custom CSS:

If you would like to change the look of the blog category and use your own CSS classes, you can specify a CSS class here

Category teaser:

Upload a teaser (parallax, cover and image and text)

Template for the category information:

Here you can influence the appearance of each category using different templates (parallax, cover and image and text require a teaser image) We are constantly expanding the templates

Template for the listing

Here you can influence the appearance of the blog entries in each category using different templates. We are constantly expanding the templates Styles for listing

Button type:

Decide what color the button of the blog post should have. You can find an overview of the colors at https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/components/buttons/

Button size

You can find information about this at https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/components/buttons/ /

Size Image animation:

Here you can set that the image of the blog post should have an animation. Then select an animation from the list

Visibility:

Specify in which sales channel the category should be displayed

It is important to assign a sales channel to a blog entry, otherwise the entry will be displayed in the frontend

SEO URLs and SEO:

SEO settings

Important information:

When saving, "Error An error has occurred." appears, then it is because important fields are not selected or filled in, for example "Position". So scroll down and check whether any fields are marked “pink”.