Theme Blocks

Here you can manage your sidebar and decide what content blocks it should display on the Blog page.

Blogs -> Content and Sidebar -> Add block

If you need to showcase a sidebar on blog pages, activate the option in Theme settings -> Blog & Article Pages -> Blog sidebar. There you can change the positioning and visibility settings. How to configure these settings, you can read here.

Here you can add content for the sidebar on the blogs page. There are 5 possible content blocks: “Sidebar Categories”, “Sidebar Tags”, “Sidebar Recent posts”, “Sidebar HTML”, and “Sidebar Subscription”. We will get deeper into each of them.

Theme Blocks

Sidebar Categories

Here you can select a “Menu” that you want to be displayed in the sidebar and give it a “Title”. If you want this block to be separated from the other ones, you can enable the option “Show border”:

How to add and edit menu items you can read here.

Sidebar Tags

If you need the tags to be displayed as a content block in the sidebar, you need to add the “Sidebar Tags” block. Here you can add a “Title” and enable the option “Show border” if you want this block to be separated from the other ones:

Make sure, that you have added tags to Blog posts in Shopify Admin -> Online Store -> Blog posts:

Sidebar Recent posts

Here you can select a “Menu” that you want to be displayed in the sidebar and give it a “Title”. In this block, a small information menu can be added. If you want this block to be separated from the other ones, you can enable the option “Show border”:

How to add and edit menu items you can read here.

Sidebar HTML

Here you can select a “Page content” that you want to be displayed in the sidebar and give it a “Title”. If you want this block to be separated from the other ones, you can enable the option “Show border”:

How to add and edit a page you can read here.

Sidebar Subscription

If you need the subscription to be displayed as a content block in the sidebar, you need to add a block “Sidebar Subscription”. Here you can add a “Title” and enable the option “Show border” if you want this block to be separated from the others. There are three fields where you can add your own text: paragraph, placeholder, and button text: