How to Create a Blog from a Data Source

We've already discussed how you can build a blog using static Softr blocks. However, it's also possible to create a block, storing all your content and media in one of our data sources. To do that, you can use one of our List layouts to display data from a data source. Further on, the List block can be connected to a List Details block, so that your readers can click on the list item to open the blog post on a separate page. Additionally, it's also possible to configure the List Details data to apply a unique Slug, Title, and Description and make it indexable by search engines.

To give you a better ideas of how this can be done, let's do a basic blog setup with Airtable data and take a closer look at each step involved.

We're going to add a new table that has three fields: Title, Body Text, and Image.

For the Body Text field, we've enabled Rich Text Formatting to be able to add formatting to our content.

Below, you can see that we've added some formatting to our body text such as bold text, headings, bullet points, etc.

Now, we need to add a List and List Details blocks in Softr to display the content we just added on Airtable.

Finally, let's publish our Softr app and see what we got.