Collections (eg Blogs)

Collections are an extremely useful tool, a collection is a database of information you want on your site. For example, if you have 10 staff members, we create a database called a Collection of their information for the website. Then we can add that information to multiple places across the site like the Teams page and attach people to any dedicated Services they offer. We can also use the Team Collection as Authors to a blog post meaning multiple collections can reference each other.

This can create many efficiencies. If a team member changes their phone number or updates their profile image, you only need to change it once in the collection and the rest of the website will update automatically.

The most common collection is Blog Posts. A blog in your site has a static page to list all of your blogs, the blog page itself and any suggested blog section on any page. All of this data comes from the one source of truth being the Blog Collection.

Here is an example of my collections where I have blog posts and a portfolio. I simply add another portfolio here and it filters through my site on 2 pages, my Home page and my Our Work page.

We go deeper into Collections in this article if you want to learn more and master the power of collections and your editor.