Blogs
Sidebar: Content → Blogs
Module: Blogs — Free, Plus and Prime.
A FlyB blog is a full publication with its own address, its own visual identity, its own SEO and its own analytics. It can also be something other than a blog: because you can rename what the public site calls an entry, the same module works as a property portal, a vehicle catalogue, a job board or a product directory.
The layout is fixed — there is no page editor here. What you configure is the identity, the home, the taxonomy and the content.
Creating a blog
Identity
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Internal name | Dashboard only |
| Slug | First segment of the public URL |
| Public title and tagline | The blog home heading |
| Favicon, logo (light), logo (dark), social sharing image | The blog’s visual identity |
| Layout and colours | The theme |
| Track visits in Analytics | Counts home, category and post views in the explorer |
What the site calls an entry
post_term_singular / post_term_plural rename the word the public site uses —
“Property”/“Properties”, “Job”/“Jobs”, “Vehicle”/“Vehicles”. The dashboard always says
“post”, so support and documentation stay consistent whatever you chose.
Type the words exactly as they appear inside a sentence. The site composes phrases around them, so the form you type is the form that will be read.
Header
The blog header applies to every page — home, posts and categories.
- Top menu — links shown centred at the top, in the order you set. On smaller screens they collapse into a dropdown.
- CTA button — a highlighted button on the right of the menu, using the theme’s primary colour.
- Logo max width — caps the logo so an oversized file cannot take over the bar.
Home
| Setting | Options |
|---|---|
| Post layout | Grid (equal cards), List (one row per post, longer excerpt), Magazine (a hero post then smaller cards) |
| Posts per page | How many each page of the home and category listings shows |
| Pinned posts | Rendered before the listing, in exactly the order you set |
SEO and scripts
Description (the home’s meta description), canonical URL (only when the original content lives elsewhere), noindex (stops indexing and removes the blog from the sitemap), plus scripts injected into the page head and before the closing body tag.
Posts
Content
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| Title | |
| Slug | Long descriptive slugs are good for SEO. Avoid changing it after publishing |
| Excerpt | Listing cards and meta description. Generated from the content if left empty |
| Cover image and alt text | Listing card, top of the post, social previews |
| Content (Markdown) | Headings, tables, code blocks, blockquotes, YouTube and Vimeo embeds. Images come from the gallery only |
| Category and subcategory | |
| Tags |
The Markdown editor has a toolbar for headings, emphasis, lists, quotes, links, gallery images, embeds, code blocks, tables and dividers, with a live preview.
Photo gallery
A post can carry a gallery, rendered as a carousel at the top of the page, each photo with an optional caption and its own display order. When a post has a gallery, the carousel takes the top of the page and the cover image still powers the listing cards and social previews.
Publishing
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Draft | Not public |
| Scheduled | Status “Published” with a future publish date — goes live then |
| Published | Live |
| Archived | Taken down |
Feature post marks it as featured in the listings.
SEO fields
Meta title, meta description, canonical URL, Open Graph and Twitter Card title, description and image, noindex and nofollow. Anything left empty falls back to the post’s own title, excerpt and cover.
Writing with AI
Write post with AI takes a description of the idea — audience, tone, points to cover, what makes your business different — and writes the article, filling in the title, slug, excerpt, tags and SEO. It knows which posts you have already published and avoids repeating them, and suggests a free-to-use Unsplash cover.
Improve with AI rewrites an existing post from your instructions.
Both cost Flights, shown before you generate.
Categories
Categories have their own URL, title, description, colour and order. The hierarchy is two levels deep: a category can hold subcategories, but only a category with no posts of its own can be a parent. A parent category lists the posts of all its subcategories.
Banners
Banners run in five placements — home top, between home posts, post top, post bottom and the right sidebar — with separate desktop and mobile creatives so nothing is cropped or distorted. Each has a destination URL, an alt text, an optional start and end date, an active switch, and view and click counters.
Banners require a paid plan. On the Free plan any banners you created are paused and do not show on the site.
Community
A blog does not have to be a publication. It can be a members’ portal.
Who can read the blog
| Mode | Behaviour |
|---|---|
| Open | Anyone reads it, no account needed. The default |
| Automatic | Requires a free FlyB login; everyone who signs in is approved immediately |
| Approval | Requires a login, and only the e-mails on your guest list get in. Everyone else waits for you |
A blog that is not open is noindex and is excluded from the sitemap and the RSS feed — a private blog should not be in Google.
Anyone who signs in becomes a contact in your organization, with the blog’s name as their origin, and appears under Members.
Guest list
For approval mode: e-mails approved on sight. Paste them from a spreadsheet — commas, semicolons or one per line all work. Removing an e-mail removes the automatic approval, but someone already in stays in until you deactivate them under Members.
Members
Every person who has signed in, with their post count, comment count, last visit and an active switch. Deactivating blocks them on their next page load; their posts and comments stay where they are.
Comments
Readers can comment on each post. Commenting requires a free FlyB login even on an open blog. Comments can be hidden from the site or deleted outright from the moderation screen.
Letting readers publish
With guest authoring on, readers get a “New post” button. A guest author:
- picks from your categories and cannot create one
- uploads photos into their own gallery
- never sees the AI writer, the SEO fields, scheduling or the featured switch — the blank SEO fields are filled from the finished post when it goes live
You can edit or delete anything they publish, and guest posts are badged as such in your list.
Plan limits
Your plan caps how many blogs you may own and how many posts you may hold across all of them. Banners are a paid feature. See Plans, Flights & Limits.
Publishing, sharing and indexing
Publishing a blog makes it public. The share dialog gives you the URL, a UTM builder and a QR Code. On paid plans you can push a post straight to Google and IndexNow — see Landing Pages → Requesting indexing.
You can also serve a blog under your own custom domain.