Articles - Feature Guide
Creating articles is a good way to make your store unique and to attract interested customers. You can make your articles a personal review or an essay about a product or cover any topic in your niche. This guide will teach you more about Articles and how to create/manage them.
Articles are your store's blog. Each article can have categories, an author and a publish date, and your articles show in your store menu. You do not need a separate blog platform.
How to create Articles
From your store's Dashboard, go to Articles:
There will be two options to create an article; Create article (Manual) and Article generator (AI):
To bring in articles you wrote somewhere else, go to Articles > Write with AI > Import Articles and upload Markdown or HTML files. Each file becomes a new disabled article.
Article Writer
Our AI powered Article Writer feature makes it easier and faster to create articles. You only need to push some buttons and type in some keywords.
For a full guide on how to use the Article Writer, please see this guide:
Manually Creating an Article
If you have a previously written article you want to use, or you want to create a new one on your own, you can choose this option.
Article Titles
On this tab, your article's Title, Subtitle, and Link Title should be placed:
Article Content
The Content tab has the main article content. You can completely paste all of your content here or write it from scratch. This tab also allows you to add a product to your Article, showing the image, details, and a product page link.
Adding products to your articles is a great way to capture conversions and sales, and helps to boost SEO with internal linking.
Article Images
The Images tab gives you three options: Listing, Hero, and Social Images:
SEO & Meta
This tab will show the unique part of your page's URL and Meta fields for SEO. You can generate the content using AI or write your own.
Settings
The Settings tab contains options such as enable/disable and showing it in Sitemap. You can also set the publish date here.
Article Categories
Article categories help you organise your articles into groups so visitors can browse by topic. This is important once you have more than a few articles, as it improves navigation and search engine performance.
How to create an article category
- Go to Articles > Categories in your store dashboard
- Click New
- Fill in the category name, content, and images
- Save the category
How to assign an article to a category
- Edit the article you want to categorise
- Scroll down to the Categories panel below the article form
- Click Add Categories and choose one or more categories
- Click Add
To add many articles at once, tick them in the article list, click Actions, then Add to Category.
You can also move articles between categories. See: How to move an Article into an Article Category
Troubleshooting article categories
- Categories not showing on your store? Make sure the category has at least one published article assigned to it. Empty categories may not appear on the storefront.
- Category not appearing in the dropdown? Make sure the category is created under Articles > Categories, not product categories. Article categories and product categories are separate.
- Articles not showing in a category? Check that the article is enabled (not disabled) in its Settings tab, and that it is assigned to the correct category.
Article Search
Visitors can find your articles with the search box on your store. A search matches words in the article title. Articles are included in search results by default. To turn this on or off, go to Settings > Search and use the Include articles switch.
Article Authors
You can set an Author for your article which will show on your store and provide Rich Results in the search engines.
Your store has a "Default Author" setting which will apply to all articles. You can find this in your Store Settings section. Alternatively, you can set a unique Author per article.
Article Meta
Your Article Meta refers to the publish date, author, and the categories it belongs to.
There is a setting in your Store Settings to show or hide this Article Meta.
Table of contents
Your articles can show a Contents box above the text, with a link to each H2 heading. Go to Settings > Articles and switch on Show Table of Contents in the Author & Meta Settings section. It is off by default.
The box only shows on articles with 3 or more H2 headings.