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Not your typical article template, zora offers several features to help you blog your best with the tools you need to sell content.

Members-only content

Turn any post into a members-only post with the “exclusive” membership tag. When the tag is added, zora restricts content to members only. Non-members will see a prompt to subscribe or log in.

Learn how to create members-only content. Note: zora must be assigned a membership product to enable this experience. See configure your membership settings.

Multi-media

With zora you can turn any post into a video or audio post without leaving the content section of your admin page using z-codes (also known as shortcodes). Z-codes are a quick way to include an mp3, mp4, or supported third-party video/audio iframe in any post. Include the media z-code anywhere in the content section and zora will do the work. You can change where the media player appears via your theme editor just like any other block. The shortcode for an mp3 or mp4 is:

  • [audio mp3=https://example.com/file.mp3]
  • [video mp4=https://example.com/file.mp4]

To see a full list of supported media shortcodes, including do and don't examples, see media z-codes.

Multi-authoring

Contributors

With zora, multi-authoring is easy. Add as many contributors as you'd like to a post. From hosts to videographers, you get to decide on who contributes to your content.

To add a contributor to a post, add a “role-” tag as follows:

  • role-writer_brian-davis

The word after “role-” is the role of the contributor. Replace any spaces with dashes (-). The text after the underscore (_) is the name of the contributor. The role automatically shows on blog posts when contributors are added. You can disable this feature in the “Blog posts” section of your theme settings.

zora uses Gravatar to generate contributor images, or it uses a custom image from the contributor page. You can also disable images via the "Contributors" section of your Theme Settings. In addition to creating contributor pages, you can choose to hide the default author on posts. This is useful if you do not want to show the user who published the post on your site. For SEO purposes, zora will use your role contributors as authors instead.

Note: zora recognizes the user who published the post as an author (i.e. role-author_default-author-name) if you want to create a contributor page for the default author.

Sponsors

In addition to Contributors zora has a special tag to identify a Sponsor as follows:

  • sponsor_shopify

The “sponsor_” tag lets zora know the post is sponsored and adds the “sponsored content” text to the post and blog cards. A separate CTA is also added to help your sponsors stand out. Like Contributors, your post can have as many Sponsors as you'd like, and you can create Sponsor pages using the Contributor template. When this feature is enabled and a post has no Sponsors, the Sponsors section is hidden.

Streaming channels

As a content-aware theme, zora knows what streaming channels to show on your blog post based on post type (e.g. video or audio). If you’ve added "Streaming Channels" in your Theme Settings, zora will only show audio channels on audio posts and video channels on video posts.

Inline products and collections

With product z-codes and collection z-codes you can add any product or collection to a blog post. This feature is great for making beautiful commerce content like gift guides, reviews, and more. To add a product or collection to your post include the z-code wherever you want it to appear within the content section of your post.

  • [product=t-shirt]
  • [collection=swag]

Learn more about product z-codes and collection z-codes. You can enable or disable these features via the "Inline products" and "Inline collections" sections of your Theme Settings.

Threaded comments

zora ships with a lightweight threaded comments experience that lets you engage your audience and keep the convo going. If you prefer paginated comments you can disable this feature in the comments block. You can choose to thread comments up to 3 levels deep. The default is 3. With threaded comments enabled you can also reply as your brand. zora will show your chosen brand icon (via settings) as long as you respond using your store's contact email.

And more

In addition to all the above, blog posts come with some other cool features which you can enable/disable via the "Blog cards" section in your Theme Settings:

  • Posted ago (shows up to 24 hours)
  • Date
  • Read time
  • and more