Create your blog
Your Floggy site is your public presence: your address, your profile, your portfolio sections, and your navigation. This guide covers what visitors see and how you shape it.
Your address
Every account gets a free subdomain:
https://your-username.floggy.xyz
This is live from day one and never expires. On the Pro tier you can also connect a domain you already own, like yourname.com, and it becomes your blog's main address. See Custom domain for the setup.
You'll find your address any time in Settings > Domain, which shows both your subdomain and any custom domain you've added.
Preview vs public
There are two ways to look at your site:
- Public view is what everyone sees, at your subdomain or custom domain.
- Preview is the owner-only editor and admin view at
/preview/your-username. Only you can open it. If someone else tries, they're sent to your public site instead.
You'll use preview to write posts and customize your theme, and the public URL to share.
Your profile
Your profile is the top of your homepage. Edit it in Settings > Profile:
- Profile picture, display name, and bio.
- Work status: choose "Don't display", "Open to opportunities" (shows a badge), or "Currently employed" (shows your role and company, with an optional company logo and website).
- Social links to your other accounts.
There's also a Co-authoring toggle here. When it's on, other Floggy users can invite you to co-author their posts.
Portfolio sections
Sections are the custom blocks that make up your homepage below your profile - things like Projects, Experience, Skills, or a gallery. Manage them in Settings > Sections.
Sections come in a few shapes so you can present different kinds of content:
| Layout | Good for |
|---|---|
| Text | An about blurb or any prose |
| List | Links, roles, or simple line items |
| Cards | Projects or featured work |
| Timeline | Experience or a history |
| Gallery | Images and visual work |
Add as many as you like and reorder them to control how your homepage reads.
Navigation
Your navigation menu is the set of links at the top of your site. Edit it in Settings > Navigation to add links to your own pages or to external sites. This is how visitors move between your homepage, your blog, and anywhere else you want to point them.
Your blog page and homepage layout
In Settings > Blog you control how your posts appear:
- Blog layout sets how posts show on your homepage.
- Posts section title is the heading above them (default is "Latest" - try "Writing", "Posts", or "Articles").
- Blog page layout sets how posts look on your full blog page, as a List, Grid, or Compact view.
What visitors see
Put together, a visitor landing on your site sees:
- Your profile - photo, name, bio, and status.
- Your portfolio sections in the order you set.
- Your posts, in the layout you chose.
- Your navigation menu to reach everything else.
To change the overall style and colors, head to Themes.