add a search function or make categories for blog without creating multiple blogs?

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Topic summary

A user seeks to add search functionality or categories to their blog (located on their homepage) without creating multiple separate blogs.

Native Shopify Solution:

  • Tags can function as categories: assigning tags to articles allows filtering via URL structure (e.g., /blogs/news/tagged/summer shows only posts with the “summer” tag)
  • These tagged URLs can be organized into navigation menus or multicolumn sections
  • This approach is documented in Shopify’s official theme architecture

Third-Party Option:

  • A dedicated app (Ahoi Apps Blog Filter & Search) offers custom filter groups, tagging systems, and search functionality with featured article support
  • Includes a 7-day free trial for testing

The discussion remains open with no indication the original poster has implemented either solution.

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is there a way to add a search function or make categories for blog without creating multiple blogs?

my blog is on the bottom of my home page and would love to have categories or at least a searchable function, without creating multiple blogs, any solutions?

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Kinda categories:

You can assign tags to your blog articles and then, say you have tag “summer” and your blog is at /blogs/news, then /blogs/news/tagged/summer will show only posts which has this tag.

Then you can create a menu with these links or use multicolumn section or whatever.

As per https://shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/themes/architecture/templates/blog#filter-articles-by-tag

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Hey,

we have developed an app for blog search. You can actually define your own filter groups, which allow you to add tagging filter system and a blog search. Within the blog search you can set featured articles as well. Maybe this helps.

There is a 7 days free trial, so you can test it, before using it. Ahoi Apps Blog Filter & Search