Hello Everyone,
I am new shopify, Just curious to know, If we can make a blog site on Shopify will that be possible? I have seen and read about shopify it only famous for Ecommerce.
I have site https://southsiderecipe.com/ which is on custom code, Now I am willing to convert in shopify because it has some features I want to add in my site.
Yes, absolutely doable, Shopify runs plenty of content and recipe sites, not just stores. It has a proper built in blog, and everything a recipe site needs works well on it: recipe schema for Google rich results, filtering by cuisine or meal type, print buttons, ingredient and step formatting, all handled in the theme.
You get fast hosting, a clean editor, and mobile performance out of the box, plus the option to add products, ads or a shop later without moving platforms again. Your existing posts and images can be imported in bulk, and your current URLs map across with redirects so your traffic and rankings carry over. Since your site is on custom code right now, the move mainly means rebuilding the front end as a Shopify theme, which is straightforward and where you’d get the extra features you’re after. Happy to take a look and walk you through how it’d work.
Best,
Moeed
Yes.
Shopify has a full built-in blog, and plenty of content and recipe sites run on it, not just stores.
I looked at southsiderecipe.com. Your posts and your categories (Baking, Salads, Muffins, Pastries) map onto Shopify’s blog cleanly, so here is the beginner steps.
1. Find the blog. In your admin go to Content > Blog posts. Everything lives here. There is no plugin to install, it is built in.
2. Write a post. Click Add blog post. Give it a title, write the recipe in the content box, and add a featured image. Fill in the Excerpt for the card summary. That is one recipe done.
3. Make your categories. In Shopify each category is its own Blog. On the post, open the Blog menu on the right and pick Create a new blog (make one called Baking, one called Salads, and so on). For finer filtering inside a category, add Tags (like “gluten-free” or “30-minute”).
4. Publish it. Set Visibility to Visible, then Save. Fill the Search engine listing (title + description) while you are there, that is your Google preview and helps SEO.
5. Show it in your menu. Go to Content > Menus > Main menu > Add menu item, name it “Recipes”, and set the Link to Blogs. Now visitors can find your recipes from the top nav.
6. Keep your current URLs. Since you are moving from custom code, go to Content > Menus > URL redirects and point each old southsiderecipe.com link at its new Shopify URL. Your traffic and rankings carry over instead of breaking.
Notes:
Helpful apps for a recipe site: Recipe Kit or Slick Recipe for recipe cards and rich results, and Matrixify for bulk-importing your old posts.
Regards,
Ploqo
Yes, you can build a blog-focused website on Shopify. Shopify has a built-in blogging system that lets you publish articles, organize them with blogs and tags, manage authors, and optimize basic SEO settings.
However, since your current site is custom-coded, check whether the specific features you need are available through a Shopify theme, app, or custom development before moving. Shopify’s blogging features work well for standard content, but they may be less flexible than a dedicated CMS for complex content structures.
You should also plan the migration carefully, especially for:
Blog posts, pages, images, and embedded content
Authors, tags, publication dates, and SEO metadata
URL changes and one-to-one 301 redirects
Custom functions that may need to be rebuilt on Shopify
If you need help migrating your existing content to Shopify while preserving its structure and SEO value, feel free to reach out to us at LitExtension. We’d be happy to review your current site and recommend the most suitable migration approach.
Yes, absolutely. Shopify can be used to build a blog/content-focused website not just an eCommerce store.
Shopify has a built-in blogging system with posts, categories/tags, authors, SEO settings, images, custom templates, and dynamic content. You can also customize the theme extensively using Liquid, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, so a recipe website like southsiderecipe.com can be recreated and customized on Shopify.
Since your current website is custom-coded, I’d recommend first checking which features you already have and which additional features you want to add. Then you can determine what Shopify provides natively and what would require custom development.
So yes your recipe/blog website can definitely be migrated to Shopify even if you are not selling products.
Best regards,
Devcoder 
Yeah, Shopify can handle a blog. I’d just be a little careful about moving a recipe site over purely because you want some Shopify features.
Recipe sites can have a lot of little things tied into SEO and the existing URLs, so I’d check what you’re currently using for recipe schema, categories, search, related posts, etc. before rebuilding it. Shopify can do the content side, but you might need some theme work to get it behaving the way you want.
If you’re planning to actually sell something on the site too, then Shopify makes a lot more sense. If it’s mainly a recipe blog and you just need one or two Shopify features, I’d probably keep the current site and add Shopify rather than move everything.
Yes, Shopify supports blogs and can handle recipe/content sites. Since your site is mainly a recipe blog, compare Shopify’s blogging and SEO features with your current setup before migrating. If you also plan to sell products, Shopify becomes a much stronger choice.
Yes, Shopify can run a recipe blog, but I would not migrate the whole site until you test the parts that matter.
Hi there.
You can definitely run your blog on the Shopify platform, since it’s built-in blogging system provides the basic features you may need for that. But if you want your blog to be a major part of your website and want more advanced seo capabilities, internal linking, related posts, and so on, you may find the native blog a bit limited. Yet there are Shopify blog apps that can extend its functionality and fill any gaps.
Hi @steve.redigitizing Welcome To Shopify Community So Yes, Shopify can absolutely run a blog-focused site, it has a built-in Blog feature (Online Store > Blog Posts) with categories, tags, comments, RSS, and SEO fields, and most themes support proper blog templates and article layouts, not just an afterthought feature. That said, Shopify is genuinely built around commerce architecture at its core, so a pure content/recipe site would be paying for and running a platform designed for products, inventory, and checkout even if you never sell anything, which means a higher monthly cost and some unused complexity compared to a dedicated blogging platform like WordPress. It can make sense if you’re planning to eventually monetize with products (recipe kits, merchandise, affiliate product links styled as shoppable content) or want the specific features Shopify’s ecosystem offers that your current custom site lacks, but if it’s purely content with no commerce plans at all, it’s worth being clear on which specific Shopify features you’re after, since some blog-enhancing functionality can likely be replicated on your existing custom setup without a full platform migration. Hope this helps solve your problem, and if it does, don’t forget to like and mark it as the solution. Thank you!
Yes, Shopify does have a built-in blog feature - you’ll find it under Online Store > Blog posts. You can create posts, organize them into categories, add featured images, and customize how they look using your theme’s blog templates.
That said, Shopify’s blogging tools are more basic than something purpose-built like WordPress - things like comments, tags, and advanced SEO/content organization need extra apps or workarounds. It works well if you eventually want to sell products alongside your content (recipe kits, merch, etc.) since everything lives in one platform. But if blogging/content is your main focus and you don’t plan to sell much, a dedicated blog platform might serve you better long-term.
If you do want to move over, you’d need to manually recreate posts (no direct WP-to-Shopify blog import) or use a migration app to speed that up.
@steve.redigitizing Yes, you can run a blog on Shopify. Plenty of recipe and content brands do it.
Caveats from migrations we’ve done:
Order of operations: URL inventory → theme → sample post import → redirects → DNS. Don’t flip the domain first.
If you want, paste how many posts you’ve got and whether products are already on another cart. That changes the tool choice.
