Blog Settings
Blog Settings holds everything that applies to the whole blog: where it lives, how it looks on the site, SEO defaults, comments, access control and social sharing. Set it up once. Several settings change URLs or folder names, so revisit them with care.
Open it from the Blog Settings link in the dashboard header. The form applies to the blog selected in the blog selector.
Header
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Inactive | Hides the blog from the site entirely. All its URLs stop resolving. In the blog selector an inactive blog shows a crossed eye icon. |
| Cancel | Returns to the post list without saving. |
| Save | Saves and shows "Settings saved". |
| Image preview and Remove Image | Shows the current blog image, with a link to remove it. |
Basic configuration
| Field | Required | Rules | What it controls on the site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Yes | Up to 100 characters | The internal name. Used as the page heading if Title is empty, and in the breadcrumb. |
| Title | No | Up to 100 characters | The heading visitors see on the blog home page. |
| Image | No | JPG or PNG, 5 MB | The banner at the top of the blog home page. |
| Path | Yes | Lowercase letters, numbers, hyphens. Up to 100 characters | The URL segment of the blog: yourdomain.com/<path>. |
| Domains | Yes, at least one | Pick from the shopping domains of your SuiteCommerce Advanced websites | The domains where the blog is published. On any other domain the blog does not exist. |
| Category Path | Yes | Same rules as Path | The URL segment before a category: /<path>/<category-path>/<category>. |
| Tag Path | Yes | Same rules as Path | The URL segment before a tag: /<path>/<tag-path>/<tag>. |
| Theme | Yes | Purple, Orange or Blue | The accent colour of the dashboard for this blog. It does not change the site. Use it to tell blogs apart. |
| Description | No | Up to 300 characters | Shown under the title on the blog home page. |
Search engines and inbound links will break. If you must change them, plan redirects on the site.
SEO
| Field | Rules | What it controls |
|---|---|---|
| META Keywords | Up to 300 characters | The keywords in the structured data of the blog home page. |
| META Description | Free text | The description meta tag, Open Graph and Twitter description of the blog list pages. Fill it in: it is not derived from Description. |
Post pages use the SEO fields of the post instead. See Posts.
Access control
These two fields work together to restrict posts to groups of customers. Leave both empty for a public blog. See Restricting posts to customer groups for the full picture.
| Field | What to enter |
|---|---|
| Permission Source List | The script ID of a NetSuite custom list whose values are your access levels, for example customlist_reader_level with values Bronze, Silver, Gold. The post form then shows a Required Access Level field with those values. |
| Customer Permission Field | The script ID of a custom field on the customer record that holds the customer's level, for example custentity_reader_level. The site reads this field from the logged-in customer. |
Both values are limited to 300 characters.
Storage, preview and notifications
| Field | Required | Rules | What it controls |
|---|---|---|---|
| Image Path | Yes | Lowercase letters, numbers, hyphens. Up to 100 characters | The name of this blog's image folder in the File Cabinet, under Live Hosting Files/yello-dashboard. Renaming it renames the folder. The name must not be used by another blog. |
| Live Preview Domains | Yes | One of the site's domains | The domain used by the Live Preview button in the post editor. |
| Email(s) Notification for New Comment | No | Comma-separated email addresses, up to 300 characters | Who is emailed when a visitor posts a comment. Notifications also need a one-time setup by BrokenRubik, see Installation and updates. |
| Page Size | Yes | 3 to 50 | How many posts appear per page on the blog home and on category, tag, author, archive and search pages. |
Display and social checkboxes
| Checkbox | Effect on the site |
|---|---|
| Post Comment available | Shows the comment list and the comment form on every post of the blog. Individual posts can opt out with Disallow Comments. Off means no comments anywhere on the blog. |
| Display Archive on Post Page | Shows the month-by-month Archive list in the sidebar of post pages. |
| Display Author on Post Page | Shows "By Author Name" under the post banner. |
| Display Date on Post Page | Shows the publish date under the post banner. |
| Display Author on List Page | Shows the author on each card of the blog list pages. |
| Display Date on List Page | Shows the date on each card of the blog list pages. |
| Display Archive on List Page | Shows the Archive list in the sidebar of the list pages. |
| Share on Facebook, Share on X, Share on Linkedin, Share by Email | Adds the corresponding link to the Share block on post pages. |
Uploading the blog image
Click Upload next to Image and pick a JPG or PNG up to 5 MB. The file is renamed with a timestamp so it never overwrites another file, and stored in the blog's image folder. Use a wide image: on the site it spans the full width of the content column.