Once you are comfortable writing and publishing a post, these five settings help you control how each post behaves and where it shows up. They sit alongside the basics you already know and can be set on any post.
Choosing a content type
Every post has a content type that tells your store what kind of post it is. There are four to choose from. Article is the default and is meant for long-form, in-depth posts. Bite is for short, quick-read posts — a single thought, a tip, or a brief update. Video marks a post built around a video. Audio marks a post built around a podcast episode or other audio.
The content type does more than label the post — it shapes how the post is presented, including the small badge readers see and which media is brought to the front. As a rule, match the type to the heart of the post: if the whole point is to watch a clip, choose Video; if it is to listen, choose Audio; if it is a meaty read, choose Article; and if it is short and snappy, choose Bite. You can change the type at any time if a post grows or changes character.
Featuring a post
Marking a post as featured lifts it to the top of your blog listing as the headline post, so it is the first thing visitors see. You can set this from the post's edit page, or quickly toggle it straight from the post list using the featured column.
Only one post can be featured at a time. When you feature a new post, your store automatically removes the featured status from whatever was featured before, so you never have to go back and un-feature the old one. The featured post appears at the top of the first page of the listing only — it is not pinned across every page, and it steps aside when a visitor is searching, so search results stay relevant.
Organising with sections
Sections are a second way to organise posts, sitting alongside categories. Where a category describes what a post is about, a section groups posts into named streams that appear as tabs or filters on your blog — much like the sections of a Substack publication, for example "Free posts," "Podcast," or "Newsletter." A visitor can click a section to see only the posts in that stream.
You create and manage sections in the admin. Each section has a name, a short description, and a display order number that controls where it sits among the tabs — lower numbers appear first. Assigning a post to a section is optional; a post with no section simply appears in the main listing as normal. Use sections when you want to give readers a clean way to follow one particular thread of your content.
Blog SEO
Each post has its own SEO settings that control how it looks in Google and when shared. There are three: the meta title (up to 60 characters), the meta description (up to 160 characters), and meta keywords (a comma-separated list). The meta title is the headline a search engine shows, and the meta description is the short summary beneath it, so it is worth writing both deliberately to earn the click.
You do not have to fill these in. If you leave the meta title blank, your store uses the post's own title. If you leave the meta description blank, it automatically builds one from the opening of your post content, falling back to the title if there is no content yet. Filling them in by hand simply gives you tighter control over the wording than the automatic fallback does.
Previewing a draft
You do not have to publish a post to see how it will look. While a post is still a draft, use the preview link to open it exactly as it will appear once live, so you can check the layout, images, and embeds before anyone else can see it.
Preview is available to you as a signed-in staff member only — a regular visitor who somehow lands on the same link will not see an unpublished post. This lets you proof a post fully, share it with yourself across devices, and only switch it to published when you are happy.
Additional Article
Setting up page settings - https://djangify.com/docs/set-up-your-page-settings/