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How do I Create a Blog Post?

Written by Lauren

Blog Posts allow you to quickly create and integrate a beautifully designed story of your images directly to your website, or share it as a standalone web page. Create your Blog Post as part of your gallery creation workflow: select photos (no need to re-upload), get an automated design, tweak the design, setup SEO, and share. All done in minutes.

Create your Blog Post

Blog Posts can be created in three places:

  • Start a cross-gallery search from your Main Dashboard. (AI Search tools must be enabled.) Learn more here.

  • Create a new Blog Post from your Content Studio. (AI Search tools must be enabled.) Learn more here.

  • Create a new Blog Post from the Client Gallery’s Photos & Media tab (media is limited to the specific gallery). Learn more here.

Where can I find my Blog Post after I make it?

If you create your Blog Post in a specific gallery, you'll be able to view and edit it in that gallery's Photos & Media tab and in your Content Studio > My content.

If you create your Blog Post via the cross-gallery search or in your Content Studio, you'll be able to view and edit it in your Content Studio > My content.


Create Blog Post from your Content Studio

In your Content Studio, you can choose to either:


Create from My Collections

If you want to first create a Collection or have already created a Collection, go to My collections and click + New collection or select one of your existing Collections.

Learn more about creating My Collections here!

In your Collection, you can either:

  • Checkmark to select specific media within that Collection, click Create, and select Blog Post.

  • Click Blog Post to use all the media in that Collection.


Create from My content

Go to My Content, click Create, and select the Blog Post option.

From there, use the search to find photos, select the media you want to use (Shift+click to select multiple photos at once), and click Continue.


Create Blog Post from the Gallery

To begin, from the gallery’s Photos tab, in a new scene click the blog icon to Create Blog.

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Start Editing your Blog Post

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Name Blog Post

Name your Blog Post, select one of the layout styles (this can be edited later!), and click Continue.

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Writing Assistant

Fill out any relevant Blog Post information with the AI Writing Assistant. Read more about it here!

Select Photos

Then to select photos, click on the three dots underneath each scene name to select the scene. You can also Filter for specific photos based on different parameters such as Lightroom star ratings. (Learn more.)

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Click Select All to select all the photos in the gallery, or all the filtered photos. In addition you can click the checkmark on each image to select them individually. Then click Add Photos to add them to the Blog Post.

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Please Note: If you update the photos within the Photos & Media tab itself (e.g., upload a new version of the image with the same file name) it will automatically update in the Blog Post as well.

Sort Photos

If you want to add more photos to the blog post, click + Add Photos. This will take you back to the photo selector where you’ll have the option to upload additional images. The photos are organized in the same order as the gallery, but you can click Sort photos to reorder the images in the blog post.

When you sort the photos, you can choose to maintain the crop or not. We recommend maintaining the crop, as this will keep the orientation of the photos as much as possible.

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You can also Checkmark particular blocks and apply the Sort or Style options to only those selected blocks, or click the Trashcan icon to delete them.

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Change the Layout Style

Click the Style icon to begin designing your blog post, and select Layout Style.

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There are four Layout Styles to choose from: Organized, Editorial, Full, and Single. Click on the style you prefer to apply it to the blog post.

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Apply a Color Palette

Select the Color Palette tab to open the color palettes. You can click to select one of our predesigned colorways, click the duplicate icon to copy a palette to edit, or click + Add Custom Palette to create your own.

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When you add a custom palette, you can select the Background, Element, and Content color. The Element color is used for highlighted items such as the View Gallery button.

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After duplicating or creating a color palette, click the pencil icon to edit it.

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Apply a Font Collection

Click the Font Collection tab and choose one of the font collection options. You can also edit the font on each Blog Block.

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Change the Border Sizes

Select the Border Size tab to change the border around the Blog Block and between photos.

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If you click the Custom button, you can customize the top, bottom, left, and right borders of the blocks independently. You can also adjust this for individual blocks.

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Customize Individual Blocks

Layout

The Blog Post is broken down into different blocks. First select the Block Layout icon to adjust the content.

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This can include photo grids, title layouts, and text layouts; slideshows, videos, and code; vendor information, and a link to the gallery itself.

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Color

Click the Color icon to adjust the colors of the particular block. You can adjust the Background and Text colors, and access the color palettes.

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Text

Click the Text icon to edit and adjust the text on the block. You have the option to adjust the formatting, font family and style, size, as well as the verbiage itself. In the Text editor, you can also hyperlink text.

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Border

Click the Edit Border icon to adjust the border on any images included on the block.

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Duplicate or Delete a Block

Click the Duplicate icon to create a copy of the block or the Trashcan icon to remove it. You can also hover over each image in the block to crop it or remove it.

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Add a New Block

To add a new block, click on the + Add Block icon to insert it into that particular place in the Blog Post.

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Rearrange Images and Blocks

Drag images from the block tray on the left-hand side into the blog block. You can drag and drop the image into an empty image block or over an existing image to switch the two.

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Rearrange blocks by dragging and dropping them in the block tray on the left-hand side.

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Edit Blog Post Name

Click on the Blog Post name to change the name.

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Edit Mobile View

At the top of the page, click to view the Blog Post on a desktop or mobile device.

When switching to the mobile view, you can edit the font size and borders specifically for the mobile design only.

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Undo, Redo, and Save

Click the arrows to Undo or Redo your previous action.

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Then click Done to save your changes.

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Currently, the Blog Post is not visible in the gallery itself. In the future, there will be an option to include it in the gallery, so that it can be used as another storytelling element in your galleries.

Add SEO and Share Your Blog Post

Now your Blog Post is ready to be shared with your clients! Learn more about adding SEO, sharing, and integrating your Blog Post here.

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