Blog design
The design cards change how your hosted blog looks. They do not change the embed, which keeps your own site’s styles.
Where to find it
Open Website settings → General. The cards Hosted blog, Blog design and Blog layout are there.
Hosted blog
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| Address | 3 to 40 lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens. If you change it, old links to your blog break |
| Blog title | The name of the blog |
| Colour | The accent colour |
| About this blog | A short description |
For more about the address, see Hosted blog.
Blog design
| Field | Options |
|---|---|
| Logo | An https:// link. It replaces the blog name in the header |
| Font | Sans serif, Serif or Monospace |
| Post list layout | Magazine, Grid or List |
| Colours | Light, Dark or Follow the reader’s device |
| Custom CSS | CSS added after our styles on every hosted blog page. Up to 10,000 characters. It cannot contain < |
| Disqus comments | Your Disqus shortname. See Comments with Disqus |
Blog layout
Blog layout sets the background and text colour (or Use the theme’s), the shape of cover images, posts per row, and posts per page (6 to 50).
Switch these parts on or off:
- Heading and Category menu
- Search
- Related posts
- Share links: X, LinkedIn, Facebook, email and copy link
- Share a quote: readers select a sentence and share it on X
- Reading progress: a thin bar that fills as the reader scrolls
Card and post fields
Tick which fields show on post cards and on the post page. The fields are image, category, title, excerpt, date, reading time, author, tags, author box and table of contents. The title always shows.
Your own words
You can change these labels: All posts, More posts, Keep reading, Older posts, Newer posts, On this page, Summary, FAQ, Tags, Comments, Search, the search box hint, No results and Share. Use them to write the blog in your voice or in another language.