Broadcast can help you promote featured products right from a blog post. Add product links to any article, and Broadcast will add them to the sidebar with an image, product title and direct link:

How to

• In the Theme Editor, add or display the "Related products" block to the Default blog post template.

• Add one or more product links directly into the article on any of your blog posts (Shopify Blog posts). Broadcast will then generate the "Related products" sidebar promotions from these links.

Watch this quick video on how to correctly add the product link and title to any blog post page:

Broadcast highlights your key blog post articles at the top of the blog index page with Featured posts:

How to add featured posts

1. Click on the expand icon (triangle left of Featured posts) to open the content blocks

2. Choose Add Featured post

3. Select the article and use the options to customize the image and subheading

When multiple Featured posts are added, the slideshow control arrows are displayed.

TIP - Use the Position controls to help adjust the position of your image. Alternatively, you can choose a different image for the Featured post.

Section settings

Click on Featured posts to modify section settings:

• Show author

• Show date

• Show a 'Read more' button

Broadcast displays a rich grid of all your blog post articles. Click on Blog pages to configure the layout of your blog index page:

Blog Layout

Controls to customize the layout of your blog index page:

TIP - Use Show tag navigation to display the navigation bar which allows readers to filter though your articles

Articles

Adjust the image aspect ratio with the range slider and toggle article attributes:

Adjust the aspect ratio for wide to tall style images:

Broadcast theme blocks for Blog post pages and blog post templates help you customize the primary or core content for your blog post also known as article pages.

Adding sections further enhances your blog post content.

Types of theme blocks

Broadcast includes the following theme blocks for blog post pages/templates:

Related products

When you add a link to any product page inside your blog post - If enabled, Broadcast will display a product card in the sidebar of your article page.

Customers can click on the sidebar product card to view the product page:

Learn more:

Recent articles

Display and link to your three most recent articles in the sidebar:

Navigation

Add navigation links to the sidebar. By default, Broadcast will generate a menu from your blog post tags.

You can override the tag navigation with your own custom menu created in the Shopify Admin Navigation editor:

Pinterest widget

Broadcast will create a Pinterest image in the sidebar which will be used when your article is shared on Pinterest:

To customize your blog posts (also known as article pages), click on the Article page when on any blog post page.

You can also access article pages from the 'Default blog post' template in the top drop-down menu:

Hero image options

Broadcast includes controls to position your featured image and select an image height that works best for all your blog posts.

The hero image is derived from your blog post featured image:

Article toggles

Enable or disable elements of your blog posts:

• Show date (appear below title)

• Show author (appear below title)

• Show article tags (appear after the article)

• Show social sharing buttons (appear on the side of each article)

• Show navigation arrows (appear after the article and below tags)