Blog
The heart of zora is blogging and selling content. It includes features that help you publish and grow more effectively.
zora's blog recognizes article, audio, and video posts. This means you can host all your content on one blog without creating a separate blog for each content type.
There is still a time and place for separate audio or video blogs, especially for podcasts. By default, zora shows the blog post type on blog cards. You can disable this feature via the “Blog cards” section within your theme settings.
Filter
zora blogs ship with a filter that lets you sort blog posts by content type (audio, video, article), blog (if you have multiple blogs), categories (see below), and tags. You can hide this filter or disable specific filter features via the “Filter” section in your theme settings.
Banners
Add a blog image and text to any blog. You can also create unique banners for any tags. The blog banner section lets you choose a default background color or image and aspect ratio for mobile and desktop shared across all blogs. Or you can add a banner block and create a custom banner for a tag.
Note: If you prefer dynamic sources and metafields over blocks, create a metafield for the banner image, title, and text. You will need to add at least 1 block and assign dynamic sources for the block image, title, and text.
Categories
Shopify doesn't have categories in the same way you might see on WordPress or other blogging platforms. It does have a powerful tagging system that can be used to create a blog category hierarchy. zora distinguishes categories from ordinary tags using the “cat-” prefix. It supports up to 3 levels deep as follows:
cat-country_region_state(3 levels)cat-business_fundraising(2 levels)cat-tech(1 level)
The first level appears after cat- (e.g. country, business, and tech). If your category has multiple words, replace spaces with dashes (e.g. world-news). The second level appears after the first underscore (e.g. region and fundraising), and the third level appears after the second underscore (e.g. state).
Categories appear in zora in the blog filter and mega-menu if you enable the feature. You do not need to create advanced nested navigation manually. Enable "show blog categories" in the global Header and zora will generate the nested menu for you. Learn more about nested categories.