# Blog

## Why your shop needs a blog

Product pages close sales — blog articles build trust. Visitors who aren't yet sure whether to buy from you are looking for answers, real-world experiences and background knowledge. If you don't supply that content yourself, they'll read it elsewhere — and end up ordering wherever the content was.

## What the extension brings

PremsBlog adds a full-blown magazine area directly to your Shopware shop. You manage articles, authors, categories and tags centrally in the administration. The shop renders them automatically — with filters, pagination, reviews, an RSS feed and everything search engines expect.

## Highlights

* **Visual editor** — every article is built like a Shopping Experience. Drag & drop, live preview, switcher for desktop / tablet / mobile.
* **Multilingual** — title, subtitle, short description, content and every text element. Translations you leave empty fall back to the default language automatically.
* **Author profiles** with their own detail page, A–Z filter and a list of every article.
* **Categories & tags** freely combinable, with a filter sidebar and one-click links.
* **Cross-sell** — linked products directly inside the article.
* **Reviews** with star rating and moderation *(Premium)*.
* **Blog elements for any page** — place "Latest posts", "Posts by category" or "Selected posts" on any home or landing page.
* **Auto-publish** via a start and end date *(Premium)*.
* **Headless-ready** — for apps and PWA storefronts.

## Visibility & SEO

* Search-engine friendly URLs nested under your magazine category (e.g. `/magazine/my-article` instead of a cryptic id)
* Rich snippets in Google (stars, author, date)
* RSS feed at `/blog/feed` for newsletters and feed readers
* Configurable per language and per sales channel

## Get started

Want to dive straight in? The [**Quickstart**](/en/plugins/blog/quickstart.md) walks you through eight steps from installation to your first published post.

## In the manual

### Getting oriented

* [Pre Requisites](/en/plugins/blog/pre-requisites.md)
* [Quickstart](/en/plugins/blog/quickstart.md)
* [Installation](/en/plugins/blog/installation.md)
* [Plugin configuration](/en/plugins/blog/create-and-edit-blog-posts/configuration.md)

### Articles & content

* [Managing articles](/en/plugins/blog/create-and-edit-blog-posts/posts.md)
* [The content editor](/en/plugins/blog/create-and-edit-blog-posts/content-editor.md)
* [Categories & tags](/en/plugins/blog/create-and-edit-blog-posts/categories-tags.md)
* [Authors](/en/plugins/blog/create-and-edit-blog-posts/authors.md)
* [Reviews](/en/plugins/blog/create-and-edit-blog-posts/reviews.md) *(premium)*

### Making it visible in the shop

* [Blog elements in Shopping Experiences](/en/plugins/blog/create-and-edit-blog-posts/cms-blocks.md)
* [Multilingual](/en/plugins/blog/translations.md)
* [SEO, search engines & RSS](/en/plugins/blog/seo-rss-and-rich-snippets.md)

### For developers & integrators

* [Store API](/en/plugins/blog/store-api.md)

### License

* [License & premium features](/en/plugins/blog/advanced-and-premium-version.md)


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