Blog template

Paper: Using the blog template

Summary

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The blog template showcases a grid of blog posts.

Adding simple tag filtering to a blog page

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Using Paper you can update blog template to use tag based filtering. This is an easy way to surface sub-categories within a blog. For example, you may can show filters to view blogs posts with specific tags.

Create metafield definitions

1. Open up Settings and click Custom data.

2. Click Blogs

3. Click Add definition.

4. Set Name to Subtags.

5. Set Namespace and key to custom.subtags.

6. Click Select content type.

7. Click Single line text.

8. Click List of values.

9. Click Save.

Add data to collection metafield

1. Open the blog you’d like to add a tag filtering too

   • You'll have to navigate to Online Store > Blog posts > Then click "Manage blogs"

2. Scroll to the bottom Metafields area.

3. Enter a text value for each tag filter

   • There's no need to include "All" as that will be the first link within tag filtering

   • Each entry should match a tag that is present within your collection

4. Click Save.