Wix Blog: Adding and Setting Up Your Blog

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Add a blog to your site to showcase what you love. Be it food, travel, sports, or art etc. you can create a stunning blog that suits your personal style and grow your online community around the world. 
A screenshot showing a blog feed on a site.
Tips:
  • Before you get started, check out our complete step-by-step guide to blogging
  • Discover everything Wix Blog has to offer in our "About Wix Blog" article.

Step 1 | Add Wix Blog to your site

Some templates come with Wix Blog already pre-installed. If you do not have Wix Blog in your list of pages, you can add it from your editor, or directly from the Wix App Market.
Wix Editor
Wix Studio
Wix App Market
Wix App
  1. Click the Add Elements icon on the left side of the editor.
  2. Click Blog
  3. Click Add to Site
Note:
When you add Wix Blog, you are asked if you would like to install with or without a Member's Area. This gives members access to several features including the ability to log in, create a public profile and comment on blog posts.

Step 2 | Change the display settings

Inside your editor, you can customize your blog's display settings to include the features you want to show on your blog. Select the information that you want to show on your feed, choose whether or not to display a menu on your blog, and add social share icons.
A screenshot showing the display options available.
Note:
You may see different display options depending on the layout you choose. For example, the Side by Side layout lets you display descriptions of posts on your blog, but the Magazine layout does not. 

Step 3 | Change the layout

From your editor, you can play around and try different layouts to see which best suits your site's style. You can choose a different layout for the All Posts Feed - the main feed of your blog where all of your posts appear, and for the Category Feed - which displays the posts per category. 
Note:
We are using the Editorial layout in this article, other layouts may have different options than what is shown here. 
A screenshot showing the layout options available.

Step 4 | Customize the design

From your editor, you can change the look and feel of all parts of your blog by customizing the colors and fonts, and button designs.

To customize the design:

  1. Click your blog feed in your editor.
  2. Click Settings
  3. Click the Design tab.
  4. Choose what you want to customize:

Step 5 | Create post categories

Once you've customized your blog feed, you can then create some categories to help structure and organize your blog, which is very useful once it grows bigger. 
A screenshot showing the categories tab in the dashboard.

Step 6 | Create your first blog post

After all the setting up, you are finally ready to start writing posts! You can do this from your site's dashboard, or from your live site.
Tip:
Your blog comes with default content that is full of helpful tips and tricks. Be sure to delete these articles before you publish your blog.
A screenshot showing a sample blog post creation.

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