Blogging on a Webby Site
Template pages, categories and authors — set up once, then you only write.
A blog is the clearest case for Webby's template pages. You will write posts for years, and you are not going to design a page for each one.
Three pieces make it work, and they are set up once.
Capabilities
Template pages
Build a blog post page, a category page and a blog home page from Build from Template. Each serves unlimited addresses from one design.
Categories
How posts are organised, and what the category pages list. New content is assigned to them automatically.
Authors
Who a post is attributed to, with a biography, photograph and social links. Authors belong to the brand rather than to one site.
Key Concepts
The template that displays a single post, at an address like /blog/engineering/why-we-rebuilt-our-api.
The template listing every post in one category, at an address like /blog/engineering.
The template for /blog itself — the front door to your writing.
The reasoning behind your recommended categories, including suggested post types and a minimum posting frequency.
How It All Fits Together
The order that works: set up your categories and authors first, then build the three template pages, then write.
Doing it the other way round means building templates with nothing to show in them, and a template looks fine with no content and reveals its problems with real content.
Blog is reachable from the site's card on My Sites, and has two tabs: Categories and Authors.
Tip: Test every template against your longest post and your shortest. Those are where a layout breaks, and a template serving hundreds of addresses is worth getting right once.
