Shopify Feature request: Embed product images and buy buttons into blog posts writer

[columcoyle]

Hi Shopify Team,

I’d love to suggest a feature for the blog post editor that I think would be a real game-changer: the ability to easily embed product images and buy or add-to-cart buttons directly into our blog content, without having to mess around with HTML or rely on third-party apps.

Here’s why this would be so useful:

- It would let us naturally weave product promotion into storytelling or editorial-style posts.

- Blogs could actually drive conversions, not just traffic.

- It would make the blog editor a far more powerful tool for those of us using content marketing as a sales driver.

- And honestly, it would save a lot of time (and frustration!) for merchants who aren’t super comfortable with code.

How it might work:

- Add an “Insert Product” option to the blog editor toolbar, like the existing options for images and links.

- Let us select a product from our catalog and embed a simple block: product image, title, price, and a buy/add-to-cart button.

- Ideally, the styling would follow our theme automatically or be easy to tweak.

- Other platforms offer this kind of functionality, and bringing it to Shopify would make a huge difference, especially for small teams trying to make their content work harder.

Thanks so much for considering it. Would love to know if this is something that’s already being looked at, or if others are asking for the same.

All the best,

Colum
Curvy Chic Boutique

[PaulNewton]

Hi @columcoyle  make sure to make a formal request to shopify support advisor directly these are community forums (more peer to peer than platform support).

Once a shop outgrows the rich text editor they should be using dedicated services or custom tools.

Solved with theme customizations and short codes, and or browser extensions etc.

And there is large amount of tools and services for more advanced CMS behavior, prismic,storyblock, contentful etc etc etc.

I.e. predefined templates as generally you don't want writers also designing the website layout and positioning of buttons on the fly.

Counter to that if magazine level layouts per article is wanted that's beyond a rudimentary blog editor.

I don't see a resource-integration-picker happening in the article editor despite how near-sane* and cohesive* that would be.

*well almost as bear in mind embeddable buy-buttons are meant for external sources it's a silly situation to have to "embed" ones own products in your own website so really generally indicates a serious lack of proper investment in ones own properties.

The blog CMS feature is an introductory offering like all such features.

Meanwhile buy-buttons etc are interactive theme UI's, so are a template level type of logic.

And when they rolled out "Content" as part of the admin with metaobjects and metaobject-webpages they did not backfill the blog experience at all. so unless there gonna bondo that gap I'd invest in better tooling.

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@columcoyle wrote:

- Ideally, the styling would follow our theme automatically or be easy to tweak.

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And that's the catch putting design elements in the blog system creates a design-authorship issue of where-is-this-UI-element-coming-from-guessing-game that would get out of control very fast with even the most minor change to a themes design.

It can already be a mess fixing the rich text editors formatting not increase that friction by magnitudes.

read: brand inconsistency and maintenance burden at the platform level.

Meanwhile if other platforms are doing why not just use those platforms (rhetorical for self reflection as the answer to that can tell the future).

Once a shop outgrows a rich text editor they should be using dedicated services or custom tools.

Merchants that need blog template customizations then contact me for services.
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[columcoyle]

Hi Paul,

Thanks you for your in depth and thoughtful response. There is a lot to digest there. Having insight from an industry professional such as yourself is very useful.

With regards to making a formal request to a shopify advisor; it wasn't immediately clear to me on how to do so, so the community forum seemed like the best bet. My apologies for any ignorance on my part.