thank your for your feedback, we appreciate your opinion. Could you please elaborate more on which design and functions specifically you're missing? That would help us understand your needs better. Thanks!
Hello @Simona G. , saw this post and thought I'd go ahead and comment here since I was going to create a separate post anyways. There are definitely a few key options that should be available to the blog ASAP. While doing marketing professionally for my clients, our team is noticing a lack of capabilities that would really help with the SEO, conversions, and overall user experience in the blogs. We think the ability to add buttons, forms, and other features that are even available in Wix email should be standard in the blog. I can't stress enough how valuable adding in a contact form (or other custom form ideally) would be at the end of a blog. For great conversions (which is important to our client), having a call to action that they don't have to click away from (like just linking to another page--which by the way, linking to an anchor isn't even possible). We would love to see the normal page features of Wix integrated into the blog. This would honestly be a game changer and we could even drive more businesses to use Wix. Please let us know when this feature is added! (Also please note that using the html feature is limited and doesn't necessarily connect to a specific contact form). Thanks! #featurerequest
thank you so much for elaborating on your needs. Let me reply to each of the point:
ability to replying comments. Adding your vote to the Wishlist. It will be possible, however, as a matter of policy we can't disclose ETA.
locking some comments to more reply. It's possible to turn off or lock commenting on specific posts, please read about it here.
Table of contents box. We're planning to introduce anchors in the blog post in the near feature, which will allow to create the table of contents.
ability to redesign recent posts block(by using editor). It's possible to have a custom design of recent post element using Wix Blog + Corvid integration. Please read about it more here: https://www.wix.com/wix-lp/corvid-blogs
button and table generator or creater (or whatever you call them). You can currently use other formating options to make certain text stand out - format text and add link; add image and link it).
reading progress bar(loads while you scroll down the page). Adding to the Wishlist.
tag clouds for site. It's in the plans, will be available in the near future.
fixing blog gallery viewing and editing. Could you please specify what's not working regarding galleries?
thank you for a detailed and sincere post - I'm more than happy to read it and learn about your and your client needs. I understand the use case of a blog as a marketing tool and the lack of features to really make it work as a marketing tool. Let me comment on your points:
button in the blog post. As for your now you can use a workaround - format the text as CTA button and add a link; or add an image and link it too. Possibility to add the button is in the features Wishlist, I'm adding your vote there.
linking to an anchor. This feature is already planned, it will be available in the coming months.
adding a form. Again, adding your vote to the features Wishlist. In the case when a contact/custom form is something that you wish to display in each blog post, you can add it as an editor element at the post page (at the side-bar or at the bottom). Post page on blog works as a template page, please read about it more here: https://support.wix.com/en/article/accessing-the-post-page-in-the-new-wix-blog-314696
If you have more feedback, please share - we're open to learn and set the directions for blog development based on user needs. Thank you in advance!
to add to the list, the look options of the blog seem limited. The old blog format was much better, and I was able to change the background color so not just white background. I see no option to do that now. I am really disappointed at the amount of work we have to do to update our sites and not get the same functionality, blogs are such an important part of our website activity these days..
I had a color scheme going that was in alignment with my overall website - with the title of the blog and the text one color and the background another color - I don't have options to do that as far as I can tell - can you please add that to the list.
please find below instructions how to change the background colours and let me know if this answers your need.
On the Wix Blog you can control post background colour and feed area background color (separately for main blog feed and post page). To change them, go to main Blog Settings and then:
Design -> Posts -> Post background
Design -> Buttons & Margins -> Feed area background
Wix blog needs a search-optimization plug-in! Like "Yoast". (Yoast SEO is a search-optimization plug-in for WordPress.) I hope that by offering such a plugin as soon as possible, you will contribute to add value for our wonders. Best, Selin
Hi @Bizim Muhit,
thank your for your feedback, we appreciate your opinion. Could you please elaborate more on which design and functions specifically you're missing? That would help us understand your needs better. Thanks!
Hello @Simona G. , saw this post and thought I'd go ahead and comment here since I was going to create a separate post anyways. There are definitely a few key options that should be available to the blog ASAP. While doing marketing professionally for my clients, our team is noticing a lack of capabilities that would really help with the SEO, conversions, and overall user experience in the blogs. We think the ability to add buttons, forms, and other features that are even available in Wix email should be standard in the blog. I can't stress enough how valuable adding in a contact form (or other custom form ideally) would be at the end of a blog. For great conversions (which is important to our client), having a call to action that they don't have to click away from (like just linking to another page--which by the way, linking to an anchor isn't even possible). We would love to see the normal page features of Wix integrated into the blog. This would honestly be a game changer and we could even drive more businesses to use Wix. Please let us know when this feature is added! (Also please note that using the html feature is limited and doesn't necessarily connect to a specific contact form). Thanks! #featurerequest
I can write down my wish list as:
ability to replying comments,
locking some comments to more reply,
Table of contents box,
ability to redesign recent posts block(by using editor),
button and table generator or creater(or whatever you call them),
reading progress bar(loads while you scroll down the page),
tag clouds for site,
fixing blog gallery viewing and editing,
showing author biography and a button links to other posts of this author on each post page,
ı will add more wish afterwards. Thank you for your interest @Simona G.
Hi @Bizim Muhit,
thank you so much for elaborating on your needs. Let me reply to each of the point:
ability to replying comments. Adding your vote to the Wishlist. It will be possible, however, as a matter of policy we can't disclose ETA.
locking some comments to more reply. It's possible to turn off or lock commenting on specific posts, please read about it here.
Table of contents box. We're planning to introduce anchors in the blog post in the near feature, which will allow to create the table of contents.
ability to redesign recent posts block(by using editor). It's possible to have a custom design of recent post element using Wix Blog + Corvid integration. Please read about it more here: https://www.wix.com/wix-lp/corvid-blogs
button and table generator or creater (or whatever you call them). You can currently use other formating options to make certain text stand out - format text and add link; add image and link it).
reading progress bar(loads while you scroll down the page). Adding to the Wishlist.
tag clouds for site. It's in the plans, will be available in the near future.
fixing blog gallery viewing and editing. Could you please specify what's not working regarding galleries?
showing author biography and a button links to other posts of this author on each post page. Blog integration within the member area allows to have a clickable author name, which displays the author profile page with a list with his blog publications. You have to add the author as collaborator to the blog. Please read about it more here: https://support.wix.com/en/article/adding-writers-and-editors-in-the-new-wix-blog; https://support.wix.com/en/article/changing-the-author-of-a-post-in-the-new-wix-blog.
Hope this helps!
Hi @Kyle,
thank you for a detailed and sincere post - I'm more than happy to read it and learn about your and your client needs. I understand the use case of a blog as a marketing tool and the lack of features to really make it work as a marketing tool. Let me comment on your points:
button in the blog post. As for your now you can use a workaround - format the text as CTA button and add a link; or add an image and link it too. Possibility to add the button is in the features Wishlist, I'm adding your vote there.
linking to an anchor. This feature is already planned, it will be available in the coming months.
adding a form. Again, adding your vote to the features Wishlist. In the case when a contact/custom form is something that you wish to display in each blog post, you can add it as an editor element at the post page (at the side-bar or at the bottom). Post page on blog works as a template page, please read about it more here: https://support.wix.com/en/article/accessing-the-post-page-in-the-new-wix-blog-314696
If you have more feedback, please share - we're open to learn and set the directions for blog development based on user needs. Thank you in advance!
Simona
to add to the list, the look options of the blog seem limited. The old blog format was much better, and I was able to change the background color so not just white background. I see no option to do that now. I am really disappointed at the amount of work we have to do to update our sites and not get the same functionality, blogs are such an important part of our website activity these days..
I had a color scheme going that was in alignment with my overall website - with the title of the blog and the text one color and the background another color - I don't have options to do that as far as I can tell - can you please add that to the list.
Hi @life4ward123,
please find below instructions how to change the background colours and let me know if this answers your need.
On the Wix Blog you can control post background colour and feed area background color (separately for main blog feed and post page). To change them, go to main Blog Settings and then:
Design -> Posts -> Post background
Design -> Buttons & Margins -> Feed area background
Please bear in mind that you have to set the post background and feed area background color for post page separately in the Post page Settings. Read how to access Post page Settings here: https://support.wix.com/en/article/customizing-the-post-page-in-the-new-wix-blog
Hope this helps! Let me know how it goes and if you need further help.
You haven't replied my wish list comment yet here.