Change a post's settings

Each post has a Post settings panel beside the editor, with three tabs: Post, SEO and Advanced. Every setting has a sensible default, so most posts need none of them changed.

If the panel is hidden, click Show post settings.

The Post settings panel beside the editor, on its Post tab

Search and URLs

Setting	Default when empty	What it does
Slug	Made from the title	The post's URL path. Keep it under 60 characters.
Meta title	The post title	The title shown in search results. Up to 60 characters.
Meta description	The excerpt	The text shown under the title in search results. Up to 160 characters.
Canonical URL	This post's own URL	Tells search engines which URL is the original, for posts first published elsewhere.
Schema markup	Added automatically by Superblog	Your own structured data, as JSON. Only add it if you need something different.
FAQs	None	Questions and answers shown on the post and added to its structured data.

Only override the meta title and description when you need to. Superblog already writes them from the title and excerpt.

Add FAQs

Click Manage FAQs.
Click Add FAQ and write the question and answer.

To add several at once, paste them in this format, then click Add:

Q: What is your first question?
A: The answer to the first question.

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Q: What is your second question?
A: The answer to the second question.

Content

Setting	What it does
Excerpt	A short summary shown in post lists, search results and social previews. If empty, it is taken from the post.
Category	The one category the post belongs to. See Categories.
Tags	Topics the post covers. See Tags.
Translations	The post in other languages, when multilingual SEO is on. See Multilingual blogs.

Images

Setting	Default when empty
Featured image	The first image in the post, or a generated card
OG image	The featured image

See Featured and OG images.

Display

Setting	What it does
Pinned post	Shows the post above all others. Only one post can be pinned. Pinning another post unpins this one.
Featured post	Shows the post in your template's featured section. Any number of posts can be featured.
Render as page	Shows only the title and content. The author, date, sharing icons, comments and site description are hidden.
Reader comments	Turns comments on or off for this post. See Comments.
Lead capture	Uses the site's lead capture forms, or different ones for this post.

Author and date

Change author: pick another team member as the author. The author appears on the post and on their author page.
Co-authors: add more team members as authors. See Co-authors and changing the author.
Change publish date: changes the date shown on the post, and where it sits in your blog's feed.

Custom JS: JavaScript that runs only on this post's page. Wrap it in <script> tags.
Duplicate post: creates a draft copy of the post, with its settings, and opens it.
Review comments: notes for your team about the post. Readers never see them.
Delete: deletes the post. After you deploy, it is removed from your blog.

Changes to settings are saved straight away, and go live on your next deploy.