Blog MX settings

The settings of Blog Mx are located at Content ▸ Blog MX ▸ Settings and are grouped into the following sections:

Appearence - basic configuration of the blog appearence in the frontend.
Display - additional configurations related to the blog appearence in the frontend.
Search Engine Optimization - SEO settings of the module
Comments - settings for comments in posts.
Sharing - configurations for sharing blog posts via social networks, email, etc.
Layout Settings - configurations related to the way pages of the blog will be displayed on the frontend.

Appearence

Top Menu Title - set the title of the blog for the main menu.
Blog Name - set the name of the blog that will be displayed on the main page of the blog and in the footer.
Date Format - set the way the date will be displayed in the blog pages.
Example
- F j, Y - March 10, 2001
- Y-m-d - 2001-03-10
- D, M j, Y - Sat, Mar 10, 2001
Read more about accepted date format characters.

Visible Navigation Menu - if enabled, the link to the blog will be added to the main menu of the website.
Enable excerpts on list page - When enabled, excerpts will be inserted as follows; if there is a tag in the post's content, the excerpt will go until that tag, next if the post has an excerpt that gets used, lastly, the first n characters of the post (as set below) will be displayed.
Default Excerpt Character size - set the limit for the number of symbols of the post content to be displayed on the posts list pages.

Base URL - the URL key for the blog (will be visible in the URLs for all blog pages).
Base Meta Title - the part of the page meta title that will be added to all blog pages.
Base Meta Description - the part of the meta description that will be added to all blog pages.
URL Suffix for Posts - the suffix of the URLs for all blog post pages.
URL Suffix for Categories - the suffix of the URLs for all blog category pages.

Provider - choose the provider for comments or disable them. Currently our extension supports Mirasvit Comments and Facebook Comments.

Enable AddToAny Sharing Buttons - enable/disable AddToAny buttons.
AddToAny Sharing Buttons Code - add the code for AddToAny buttons. You can customize buttons and get the code here

Sort posts by - choose the sorting for posts in all post list pages.
Posts per Page - set options for post per page appearence (options for pager toolbar). Comma sepparated values. The default value is 10,20,50.
Layout Editor - will redirect you to the Layout Editor to configure layouts of blog pages