# Post preferences

{% hint style="info" %}
Who can use this feature?

* This feature is available for all users
  {% endhint %}

### 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* **Hidden**: Keep the blog unpublished You can schedule to publish this blog post.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.

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### **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.&#x20;

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

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### **Excerpt**

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

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This is how excerpts look like on your site:

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### **Organization**

In organization, you can set up blog category, [author](https://help.seoon.io/blog/manage-authors), tags.

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### **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.

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Learn more about meta tags with [Google](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/snippet).
{% endhint %}

**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.

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="For example" %}
❌ Bad URL: `www.yourstore.com/product/12345-special-deal-buy-now`

✅ Good URL: `www.yourstore.com/product/women-sneakers`
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

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**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.

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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

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

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* 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 %}
  ```

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