How to create a Blog on Pixpa within minutes
Building a successful business is all about connecting with new people and establishing relationships. Your online portfolio is a powerful tool to showcase your skills and capabilities to your audience.
Showcasing your best work not only establishes your credibility as a professional but also helps you reach out to a broader audience. Begin by thinking of your website as a digital storefront. As a business, you have to convince people to pay for your service. They will only do so if you win their trust that you can provide value.
Blogging is a great way to grow your photography business and get new clients.You can write about your photography business, share experiences, tips and advice to educate your clients. Such resources will significantly enhance your reputation and channel more visitors to your site.
You have to be committed to creating high - quality content and sharing it with your audience regularly. Great content is one that is relevant and readable. Content is not restricted to your Home and About pages. To keep your portfolio website continuously relevant, you need to use Search Engine Optimization techniques by publishing regular blog posts.
Your blogging platform is crucial in determining your overall blogging efforts. You need a platform that is user-friendly and intuitive. Pixpa allows you to create integrated Blogs let you showcase your work and share your story in one seamless experience.
Here is a step-by-step guide to creating and publishing your Blog in Pixpa.
Step 1: Select a Theme for your Website
I have selected Offset as my theme. You can choose from a variety of themes on Pixpa. Every theme supports Blog pages. You will get an option to copy the home page demo content from Offset. You can edit or delete this content later.
Step 2: Change your Website Logo and Site Title
Here is your chance to make a great first impression and draw the attention of the viewer to your brand. Add your custom website logo and Site Title. If you don't want to upload a logo you can pick a font that matches your template.
Step 3: Setting up a Blog in Pixpa
- Click the Website icon from your panel
- Click on Add Page(+) icon
- Click Blog
- Specify a name for your Blog
Step 4: Change your Website Navigation
Add or delete pages to your website menu. You can also choose to hide pages in the site menu. Drag pages up or down to reorder. Adding categories to your website navigation helps in grouping posts and will help your viewer to find related posts.
Step 5: Adding a Blog Post
Step 6: All About Creating your Blog Post
Help article: https://help.pixpa.com/kb/add-blog-posts-to-a-blog/
Here are the available options, to get you started with creating your blog post.
- Post title – Specify the title for this blog post.
- Post content – Add your blog content here. Express yourself through a combination of imagery, words and videos. Blogs are a great way to tell stories, create engagement, and also add fresh content to your website.
You can also edit your content from the top menu items in this content box like Bold, Alignment, Bullet points, etc. Click here to know more. - Post Gallery – You can add multiple images in one go along with videos and text which will add under the blog post content in vertical scroll layout only. Click here to know more.
- Excerpt – An optional hand-crafted summary of your blog post. Used in many themes on blog listing pages.
- SEO data – Specify SEO metadata for this blog post. It will override the site’s main SEO data, specified in the website settings section. Know more.
- Page URL – Manage the URL for this blog post
- Page Title – Appears in search results and browser tabs (55-70 characters)
- Page Description – Describe your business and the purpose of this page (50 – 300 characters)
- Keywords – Add search keywords separated by commas (Usually 8-10 words)
- Show on the website – Enable this to publish your blog post on your website. A Draft blog post is not visible on your website.
- Publish Date – Blog posts are sequenced in chronological order. This date will also be shown along with your blog title on most themes.
- Featured image – Add featured an image of the blog which will be used in a website and social media sharing.
- Tags – Add your post tags. Tags are used to categorize blog posts. Separate tags with commas.
- Show title on post detail page – Enable/Disable to hide title on blog post detail page
- Save the blog post.
- View – Click here to see this blog post on live site
- Banner – Used to show a full-width banner on the top or bottom of the blog post. Know more.
Blog posts can be categorised as Published or Draft based on their status. You can easily access and sort blog posts based on the tags added in a blog post. - For example, if you click on Posts, it would give you a listing of all blog posts. You can also easily view, edit, share and delete a blog post from the listing page by clicking on the settings icon.
Step 7: Changing Settings and Layout of your Blog
Read our help article - https://help.pixpa.com/kb/create-a-blog-in-your-website/
Please see the screen below to understand the functions available on the Settings page.
- Title – Used for the name of your blog as it appears in your website’s navigation.
- Show in site menu – Enable it to show this blog in website navigation and Disable it to hide from the website menu.
- Password protect this page – Protect your pages with the password, know more, how to create a protected page.
- Set as homepage – Enable it to set this blog as your homepage. Know more.
- Enable Commenting on your blog. See this article to learn how you can enable commenting in your blog using Disqus.
- Show Pre-footer below this page – Enable it to add some pre-footer section on your page. Go to know more to create a pre-footer section.
- Layout – Customize your layout of the blog page with various options like Column layout, Dynamic layout, Block Pattern layout.
- Thumbnail Image – Used to represent this gallery in folders and for social media sharing. See the help article.
- SEO data – Specify SEO metadata for this blog. It will override the site’s main SEO data, specified in the website settings section. Know more.
- Page URL – Manage the URL for this blog
- Page Title – Appears in search results and browser tabs (55-70 characters)
- Page Description – Describe your business and the purpose of this page (50 – 300 characters)
- Delete – This will delete your complete blog ie., all blog posts.
- Save – Update all your settings.
- Banner – Used to show a full-width banner on the top or bottom of the blog. Know more.
You can change the Layout of your Blog anytime, by clicking on the layout tab on the right side under the settings section. Select the layout and click on the Save button to apply the chosen layout. All your posts would be adapted in the new layout automatically.
Step 8: Adding a gallery under a Blog Post
You can easily add multiple images in one go in your blog post along with videos and text. Scroll down the blog post page, you would see the option to add your blog post gallery just above the excerpt section.
Step 9: RSS Feeds for your Blog
Pixpa websites have a built-in RSS feeds for all the blogs. RSS stands for “Rich Site Summary” which allows users to access your regularly changing content like blog post updates etc.
RSS feeds increase google search engine ranking by offering new content on a frequent basis. Search crawlers seek to add the most user-friendly information; hence, it becomes essential to share useful content to your targeted audience. RSS feeds help in gaining exposure by RSS-specific search engines and directories like Feedburner, Feedreader, etc.
Whenever you publish a new blog post, your RSS feed gets updated automatically. It’s available at /
If your website URL is https://polaris.pixpa.com and blog name is “blog”, then RSS feed is available at https://polaris.pixpa.com/blog/feed
And if you have connected your custom domain (http://www.yourdomain.com) and blog name is Joyful-Living, then your RSS feed is available at http://www.yourdomain.com/joyful-living/feed
Click here to read more about RSS feed.
Step 9: Enable Commenting in Your Blog Using Disqus
You need a Disqus shortname to enable Disqus comments on your blogs in your website. (Note that having a Disqus username is not enough)
A Disqus shortname is a unique identifier assigned to a Disqus site. All the comments posted to a site are referenced with the shortname. The shortname tells Disqus to load only your site’s comments, as well as the settings specified in your Disqus admin. (taken from the Disqus website)
Click here for more information on what a Disqus shortname is, and how to get one.
Read this article to enable Commenting in your blog https://help.pixpa.com/kb/enable-commenting-in-blogs-using-disqus/