MetaObject Blog Post Reference?

[jaymewelch]

When creating a MetaObject field, Blog Posts are not one of the types you can reference. Am I missing something or is this intentionally not included?

I know I can use the Link type but I prefer to allow the user to select his blog post to avoid broken links in the future. Thanks!

[growth-croiss]

Yes, same issue there... difficult to understand why !

[scottn]

Oooof!

I'm trying to map out our CMS migration to Shopify and this missing piece has me pretty stuck. I did not notice blog references were not a thing... This seems really important. Please add this. We were intending to add "Related Articles" on products, blog articles, and pages. I was also hoping to implement blog article categorization using metaobjects, but none of this is very doable without the blog reference. Someone please tell me I'm just missing something, or the feature is rolling out tomorrow or something.

[JorgeGS]

I'm having the same problem. Please Shopify, add this feature! It's really important.

[growth-croiss]

Waiting for a solution, I'm using that with a metafield of article ID # :

{%- for id in product.metafields.custom.blog_posts.value limit: section.settings.posts_count -%}
  {% for article in blogs.journal.articles %}
      {% if article.id == id %}
        {%- render 'blog-post-card', article: article, blog: section.settings.blog, show_category: section.settings.show_category, show_accroche: section.settings.show_accroche, show_excerpt: section.settings.show_excerpt, show_read_more: section.settings.show_read_more, sizes: sizes -%}
      {% endif %}
  {% endfor %}
{% endfor %}

[scottn]

Hey @growth-croiss , I like your solution. I think if you stored article handles instead of ids you could probably avoid that inner for loop and use the articles liquid object like so:

{% assign article = articles['potion-notions/new-potions-for-spring'] %}

 Otherwise you might be able to use the where filter to get at your article by id:

{% assign article = articles | where 'id', id | first %}

[shiba-komino]

my solution is create a new MetaObject Definition as "Blog Post reference",
then add "Blog Post Reference" as Blog post's metafield.

after that, we can create a new "blog post reference" in blog post's metafield.
and use this type of "Blog Post Reference" as field in another MetaObject.

[manusam]

Would you mind sharing the work around? This sounds like a possible solution, at least until Shopify realizes they've missed the articles metafield. Thanks!

[sadDev]

I don't know if this will be helpful, but here's my work around: 

1) create a meta object called: "blog post reference"
2) Add 3 fields - blog post id, blog post title, blog post url 
3) Go through your blogs and make a few entries in the "blog post reference" metaobject definition

4) Go to setting -> custom data-> blog posts and create a metafield on that object type with the following specs: 
a) field type of meta object
b) select "list" for multiple selections
c) select the "blog post reference" metaobject definition we created above. 

*note- you can name the field anything you like - i'm just going to refer to it as "related reading"
Once you've completed those selections- save the field and pin the definition. 

Then- navigate back to your blog posts and open one. If you scroll to the metafields on the blog posts and select the "related reading" field. You will notice that the field has references to all of the references you created in the first step where we established the metaobject "blog post reference " and added many or all of our blog post entries. You can now search for titles and add references to multiple blog posts without having to copy and paste urls for each one. 

It would be ideal if we could automate the creation and destruction of these entries, but the options out there are very limited 😞