Post preferences

Manage how your blog posts appear on your site and across different platforms

Who can use this feature?

• This feature is available for all users

What it helps with:

• Control when your content goes live with publishing status

• Create visual appeal with featured images

• Craft compelling excerpts that encourage clicks

• Build credibility by managing author information

• Optimize how your posts appear in Google search results

• Control how your content looks when shared on social media

Status

• Visible: Blog post will be published on your site after saving

• Hidden: Keep the blog unpublished You can schedule to publish this blog post. Select Hidden -> Click Set visibility time -> Set your publishing time.

Featured image

Featured image is the first image people see when they see your post on your website, in social media shares, or on search engine result pages.

Click Add file -> Select your image (JPG, PNG, JPEG, GIF are allowed) -> Set up image alt text.

Excerpt

This is a summary of the post which is shown on your homepage or blog list page.

This is how excerpts look like on your site:

Organization

In organization, you can set up blog category, author, tags.

Google preview

This helps you set up meta tags and URLs for how this post looks on search results.

Meta tags provide information for search engines to understand the content and relevance of a webpage. This helps improve site rankings and visibility in search results.

Learn more about meta tags with Google.

URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) are the web addresses of your pages. A clean, well-structured URL helps search engines understand the content of your page and improves user experience.

For example

❌ Bad URL: www.yourstore.com/product/12345-special-deal-buy-now

✅ Good URL: www.yourstore.com/product/women-sneakers

Social preview

This helps you edit how your blogs look when they're shared on social media. You can set up image, title and description of the shared link.

After setting up, you need to add a piece of code to your theme. Go to Themes -> Select current theme -> Click Edit code -> Go to theme.liquid

• Add this code {% render 'avada-blog-social' %} as below image

  
• Go to snippets -> Add a new snippet -> Name new file: avada-blog-social

  

  
• Add this code -> click Save

  {%- assign avada_blog_og_title = article.metafields.avadaBlog.socialTitle | strip_html | strip_newlines | strip | escape -%}
  {%- assign avada_blog_og_description = article.metafields.avadaBlog.socialDescription | strip_html | strip_newlines | strip | escape -%}
  {%- assign avada_blog_og_image = article.metafields.avadaBlog.socialImage -%}
  
  {%- if request.page_type == 'article' -%}
    <!-- Avada Blog Open Graph Meta Tags -->
    {% if avada_blog_og_title and avada_blog_og_title != "" %}
      <meta property="og:title" content="{{ avada_blog_og_title }}" />
    {% endif %}  
    {% if avada_blog_og_description and avada_blog_og_description != "" %}
      <meta property="og:description" content="{{ avada_blog_og_description }}" />
    {% endif %}
    {% if avada_blog_og_image and avada_blog_og_image != "" %}
      <meta property="og:image" content="{{ avada_blog_og_image }}" />
      <meta property="og:image:secure_url" content="{{ avada_blog_og_image }}">
    {% endif %}  
    
    <!-- Twitter Card Meta Tags -->
    <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" />
    {% if avada_blog_og_title and avada_blog_og_title != "" %}
      <meta name="twitter:title" content="{{ avada_blog_og_title }}" />
    {% endif %}  
    {% if avada_blog_og_description and avada_blog_og_description != "" %}
    <meta name="twitter:description" content="{{ avada_blog_og_description }}" />
    {% endif %}
    {% if avada_blog_og_image and avada_blog_og_image != "" %}
      <meta name="twitter:image" content="{{ avada_blog_og_image }}" />
    {% endif %}  
  {% endif %}