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.

Next steps

• Show the blog on the home page? Blog elements in Shopping Experiences — three curated post rails (latest, by category, hand-picked)

• Create more posts? Limits and the upgrade path: License & premium features

• Enable reviews? Premium feature, details under Reviews

• External integration or headless frontend? Store API