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Quickstart

This page walks you through eight steps from installation to your first published post. At the end of each step you'll find a link to the detail page with deeper explanations.

  1. Install and activate the plugin

    1. Extensions → My extensions → Blog → Install
    2. Pick the sales channels in which the blog should appear (default: all)
    3. Open the plugin configuration and turn on Activate plugin for the target sales channel

    → Details: Installation and Pre Requisites

  2. Create a magazine category

    Unlike a product category, the blog overview is not a hardcoded page at /blog. You decide yourself where and how the blog appears in your storefront — via the normal Shopware category system.

    1. Catalogues → Categories → New category
    2. Pick a name, e.g. Magazine, Blog or Guides — this becomes the URL (e.g. /magazine)
    3. In the Layout tab pick the Blog listing page (PremSoft) layout
    4. Save

    The category can hang anywhere in your navigation tree — directly in the main menu, in the footer menu or as a service node.

  3. Authors overview (optional, but recommended)

    If you have several authors, a dedicated overview is worth it.

    1. Catalogues → Categories → New category, e.g. Authors as a sub-category of Magazine
    2. In the Layout tab pick the Blog authors listing page (PremSoft) layout
    3. Save

    The authors page is then reachable e.g. at /magazine/authors.

  4. Create your first author

    1. Content → Blog → Authors → New author
    2. Enter first name, last name, profile picture and description
    3. Save

    The Basic version allows exactly 1 author. Additional profiles are part of the Advanced or Premium version.

    → Details: Authors

  5. Category and tag for your posts (optional)

    These are the thematic groups you can assign to your posts — don't mix them up with the Shopware category from step 2 that hosts your magazine.

    1. Content → Blog → Categories → New category — e.g. Travel, Recipes, Tips
    2. Content → Blog → Tags → New tag — finer-grained than categories

    → Details: Categories & tags

  6. Create your first blog post

    1. Content → Blog → Articles → New article
    2. Basics: internal name, status Active, title, subtitle, short description, preview image
    3. Content: build the post in the visual editor — sections, blocks, texts, images
    4. Visibility: set the display date, assign the blog category and tag from step 5, pick an author, confirm the sales channels
    5. SEO: fill in the meta title and meta description (optional — sensible defaults are used when fields are empty)
    6. Save

    → Details: Managing articles and The content editor

  7. Map the categories in the plugin configuration

    For posts to live under the path of your magazine category, the plugin needs to know which category hosts the magazine overview:

    1. Extensions → My extensions → Blog → Configuration
    2. Under Category assignments, pick the category from step 2 as the Magazine category
    3. If you did step 3, set the Authors category accordingly
    4. Save

    → Details: Plugin configuration

  8. Check the storefront

    Visit your magazine category in the storefront:

    • Posts appear as a card list with filter and pagination
    • Clicking a post opens the detail page — the URL automatically uses the category path (e.g. /magazine/my-post)
    • The authors overview (if created) shows a card list of all profiles plus an A–Z filter

    Important: If you later switch to a different category in the plugin configuration, ask your hoster to regenerate the SEO URLs once — otherwise the old URLs stay active.

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