Blog Post Settings

Open post settings

Settings you can edit

• Blog URL path (public root path, for example /blog or /news)
• Title and Slug
• Author
• Publish date (schedule a post)
• Excerpt
• Meta title and Meta description
• Social sharing
• Disclaimer and CTA
• Main media (image or video)
• Categories and Tags

Blog settings tabs

Global blog settings are grouped into tabs so listing, header, post footer, and author defaults can be managed separately.

Listing

Use Listing to control the public blog list.

• Choose the default layout: one-column, two-column, three-column, or four-column card layouts.
• Choose a card style such as Classic, Editorial List, Magazine Grid, Elevated Cards, Minimal Archive, or Image Overlay.
• Set image shape, card density, borders, and optional display controls for images, excerpts, authors, dates, and read-more links.
• Choose whether the public listing shows a search bar, category filter, and tag filter. Each control can stay hidden, always show, or appear automatically when published posts have matching terms.
• Review the live blog URL before changing the public blog slug.

Public listing searches update the page URL, so filtered views can be shared with search terms, categories, or tags already applied.

Header

Use Header to set the blog listing title, description, and header treatment.

• Choose a plain header or an image banner.
• Set a contained or full-width banner.
• Pick the banner image, color, opacity, alt text, and top spacing.
• Choose whether the website header pushes content down, overlays the blog, follows the website default, or stays hidden on blog pages.

Post Extras

Use Post Extras to manage items that appear around blog post content.

• Add a global disclaimer that can be shown on posts.
• Turn social sharing on or off, then set alignment and opacity.
• Add a call-to-action section with title, description, button text, and button link.

Author

Use Author when a solo site needs a fallback author profile for posts that are not linked to a team profile.

• Add author name, credentials, headshot, image shape, mini bio, and a full-bio link.
• Team profiles still take priority when a post is linked to a public team profile.

Blog URL path rules

• Use one top-level path segment only (no slashes), for example blog or news.
• Use lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens only.
• Reserved system paths are blocked.
• Paths that conflict with existing pages or funnels are blocked until the conflict is resolved.

What happens when you change the blog URL path

• Hiveality updates your public blog index and post URLs to use the new root path.
• Managed redirects are created so older blog URLs keep forwarding correctly.
• Managed blog redirects appear in Redirects and are read-only.

Insights panel

Post settings now include a built-in insights panel with:

• Traffic cards for 7/30/90 day visits and views.
• Ranking Visibility for tracked keywords, rank movement, impressions, and clicks.

Use this before updating metadata so you can prioritize high-impact posts first.

SEO workflow

Use Blog SEO for post optimization and SEO Automation and Bulk Actions for repeatable metadata updates.

Save and publish propagation

When you save blog settings, Hiveality revalidates:

• The blog listing page
• Published blog post pages
• Blog sitemap metadata

This helps updates like listing title/description, disclaimer, and CTA settings appear faster on live pages.