Blog post settings
Blog post settings are all the options on the right-hand side of the screen inside the DropInBlog post editor.
Note that blog post settings are different from blog account settings, with the latter option allowing you to make changes to your entire blog. Some examples of these changes include the option to add a category menu or a search bar across your blog’s pages. To learn more about these settings, read our blog account settings support doc.
To access blog post settings, start a new post or open an existing one, and you’ll be presented with the options shown in the images below.
Status – Set your post’s status as draft, published, or scheduled to control if and when the post will be visible to your visitors.
Draft: Saving your post as a draft won’t be visible to anyone but you until you publish it.
Published: When you’re ready to make your post available to your audience, select the Publish option. Choosing this option will open the Visibility section under the post’s published date, allowing you to choose whether you want to make your post private or public. The first option will make your post live but only visible to those with the post’s link. A private post also won’t show up on your blog’s homepage or category pages. Selecting the public option will make your post accessible to everyone who visits your blog.
Scheduled: Select this option to set the date and time for when you want to publish your post.
Pinning a post – If you set the status of your post to Published or Scheduled, you’ll have the option to pin the post by turning the toggle next to Pin This Post on. With this option selected, the post you pin will show at the top of your blog posts. When this option isn’t selected, your posts will be displayed in chronological order.
Table of Contents – Toggle the switch to turn the table of contents for a blog post on or off.
FAQs – Toggle the switch to show or hide the FAQ section in a blog post.
Featured Image – This is the image to be displayed when your post is shared on social media or when visitors are browsing your blog posts. We have a separate support doc about the featured image recommended dimensions. Following these recommendations will give your blog a uniform look.
Author – Assign an author to each blog post.
Categories – Set the category that a blog post will belong to. You do not have to select one for each post. Keep in mind that if you don’t assign a category to a blog post, it will show on your blog’s homepage but not on category pages.
Related Posts – When you click on Select Posts under the Related Posts section, you’ll be shown a list of all your published posts. You can manually select the posts you want to display under a specific blog post, which allows you to show your visitors more content from your blog.
Slug/URL – Customize the blog post URL. We strongly advise you against changing the URL of a post once it’s published because doing so will change the link to that post. If changing a post’s URL is necessary, you should set up a 301 redirect from your hosting account that will take users to your post’s new URL.
Advanced:
Hide from Crawlers – Turn this option on if you don’t want a blog post to be shown in search engines. Selecting this option will also add the “noindex” meta tag to that post.
# of Characters for Summary – You can customize the number of characters to be shown in summaries or previews of your blog post. The number you set here for a specific post will override the global settings on the Settings page and only be applied to that one post.
Custom Summary – You can use this textbox to create a custom blog post summary. The summary you add here will be shown on your blog’s homepage and category pages and it will override any settings related to the number of characters for a summary you previously applied.
Disable Auto-Save – By default, DropInBlog’s Auto-Save feature will be enabled for your blog posts, but if you wish to turn it off, you can do that on a per-post basis from the Advanced section within the post editor.
Canonical URL – If the blog post you’re creating is a duplicate of another page, you can add the full URL you want to reference as the original source. Make sure to include the full URL, including “HTTP.”
We also have an article on how to set your post’s SEO – these settings are located under the blog post editor.
Note that blog post settings are different from blog account settings, with the latter option allowing you to make changes to your entire blog. Some examples of these changes include the option to add a category menu or a search bar across your blog’s pages. To learn more about these settings, read our blog account settings support doc.
To access blog post settings, start a new post or open an existing one, and you’ll be presented with the options shown in the images below.
Status – Set your post’s status as draft, published, or scheduled to control if and when the post will be visible to your visitors.
Draft: Saving your post as a draft won’t be visible to anyone but you until you publish it.
Published: When you’re ready to make your post available to your audience, select the Publish option. Choosing this option will open the Visibility section under the post’s published date, allowing you to choose whether you want to make your post private or public. The first option will make your post live but only visible to those with the post’s link. A private post also won’t show up on your blog’s homepage or category pages. Selecting the public option will make your post accessible to everyone who visits your blog.
Scheduled: Select this option to set the date and time for when you want to publish your post.
Pinning a post – If you set the status of your post to Published or Scheduled, you’ll have the option to pin the post by turning the toggle next to Pin This Post on. With this option selected, the post you pin will show at the top of your blog posts. When this option isn’t selected, your posts will be displayed in chronological order.
Table of Contents – Toggle the switch to turn the table of contents for a blog post on or off.
FAQs – Toggle the switch to show or hide the FAQ section in a blog post.
Featured Image – This is the image to be displayed when your post is shared on social media or when visitors are browsing your blog posts. We have a separate support doc about the featured image recommended dimensions. Following these recommendations will give your blog a uniform look.
Author – Assign an author to each blog post.
Categories – Set the category that a blog post will belong to. You do not have to select one for each post. Keep in mind that if you don’t assign a category to a blog post, it will show on your blog’s homepage but not on category pages.
Related Posts – When you click on Select Posts under the Related Posts section, you’ll be shown a list of all your published posts. You can manually select the posts you want to display under a specific blog post, which allows you to show your visitors more content from your blog.
Slug/URL – Customize the blog post URL. We strongly advise you against changing the URL of a post once it’s published because doing so will change the link to that post. If changing a post’s URL is necessary, you should set up a 301 redirect from your hosting account that will take users to your post’s new URL.
Advanced:
Hide from Crawlers – Turn this option on if you don’t want a blog post to be shown in search engines. Selecting this option will also add the “noindex” meta tag to that post.
# of Characters for Summary – You can customize the number of characters to be shown in summaries or previews of your blog post. The number you set here for a specific post will override the global settings on the Settings page and only be applied to that one post.
Custom Summary – You can use this textbox to create a custom blog post summary. The summary you add here will be shown on your blog’s homepage and category pages and it will override any settings related to the number of characters for a summary you previously applied.
Disable Auto-Save – By default, DropInBlog’s Auto-Save feature will be enabled for your blog posts, but if you wish to turn it off, you can do that on a per-post basis from the Advanced section within the post editor.
Canonical URL – If the blog post you’re creating is a duplicate of another page, you can add the full URL you want to reference as the original source. Make sure to include the full URL, including “HTTP.”
We also have an article on how to set your post’s SEO – these settings are located under the blog post editor.
Updated on: 28/02/2025