I’m becoming increasing exasperated by my inability to improve the blogging experience on Shopify. My requirements are low, as in all I wish to do is append each blog article with a gallery, ideally with a Lightbox.
However I keep running into brick walls at more or less every turn.
I’ve tried multiple so called page builder apps which vary from poor to terrible [how they get close to 5* ratings makes me question the provenance of the reviews but that’s a whole other story].
I’m a web dev [more Wordpress focussed] so also looked at customising and extending the theme however custom meta data isn’t supported on article for seeming no good reason whatsoever.
My last roll of the dice before I just give up and roll a WP site on a sub-domain is too see if anyone in the community has come up with a reasonable way to extend the blog in any reasonable way?
Before starting my journey with Shopify I knew blogging was poor on the platform, but not this poor.
Many thanks
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Yes, around 10. All tend to either create standalone gallery pages, look books or are product focused. Nothing came near to just appending a gallery to a blog post.
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Please - someone help this man. I have the same problem and would love to know the answer!
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We gave up in the end and just span up a Wordpress blog on a subdomain.
The latest updates to Shopify in the summer release enable adding of custom metafields to Blog posts which I think should pave the way to a ‘proper’ solution however this would required a fair bit of dev work. Over time I would image some app developers will likely pick up on these new features but it’s still not currently a straight forward process.
If I were you I’d save yourself plenty of headaches and hassle by just using a proper blogging solution.
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After reading the comments here I created a solution… A bit hacky but it works.
Just add these one css & one js file to your theme to your theme and group images into galleries via suffix “gallery [id]” in your blog posts… Tutorial is on medium. The files are too big for this comment…
For instance, i have a couple of galleries in the same post. Images for the first gallery have alts like, ‘First Beef image, gallery 01’ and ‘Another Beef image, gallery 01’. Another gallery’s images have alts like ‘‘Pork, gallery 02’, ‘Pork, gallery 02’.
Demo:
Best wine bars in Singapore
More details could be found here:
https://medium.com/@jenkins007/how-to-add-a-gallery-to-blog-posts-on-shopify-6e2f7038f958
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