diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/blogFrontMatter.test.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/blogFrontMatter.test.ts
index d343a47aeb23..f9e92db7e69d 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/blogFrontMatter.test.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/blogFrontMatter.test.ts
@@ -10,58 +10,255 @@ import {
   validateBlogPostFrontMatter,
 } from '../blogFrontMatter';
 
+function testField(params: {
+  fieldName: keyof BlogPostFrontMatter;
+  validFrontMatters: BlogPostFrontMatter[];
+  convertibleFrontMatter?: [
+    ConvertableFrontMatter: Record<string, unknown>,
+    ConvertedFrontMatter: BlogPostFrontMatter,
+  ][];
+  invalidFrontMatters?: [
+    InvalidFrontMatter: Record<string, unknown>,
+    ErrorMessage: string,
+  ][];
+}) {
+  describe(`"${params.fieldName}" field`, () => {
+    test('accept valid values', () => {
+      params.validFrontMatters.forEach((frontMatter) => {
+        expect(validateBlogPostFrontMatter(frontMatter)).toEqual(frontMatter);
+      });
+    });
+
+    test('convert valid values', () => {
+      params.convertibleFrontMatter?.forEach(
+        ([convertibleFrontMatter, convertedFrontMatter]) => {
+          expect(validateBlogPostFrontMatter(convertibleFrontMatter)).toEqual(
+            convertedFrontMatter,
+          );
+        },
+      );
+    });
+
+    test('throw error for values', () => {
+      params.invalidFrontMatters?.forEach(([frontMatter, message]) => {
+        expect(() => validateBlogPostFrontMatter(frontMatter)).toThrow(message);
+      });
+    });
+  });
+}
+
 describe('validateBlogPostFrontMatter', () => {
   test('accept empty object', () => {
     const frontMatter = {};
     expect(validateBlogPostFrontMatter(frontMatter)).toEqual(frontMatter);
   });
 
-  test('accept valid values', () => {
-    const frontMatter: BlogPostFrontMatter = {
-      id: 'blog',
-      title: 'title',
-      description: 'description',
-      date: 'date',
-      slug: 'slug',
-      draft: true,
-      tags: ['hello', {label: 'tagLabel', permalink: '/tagPermalink'}],
-    };
+  test('accept unknown field', () => {
+    const frontMatter = {abc: '1'};
     expect(validateBlogPostFrontMatter(frontMatter)).toEqual(frontMatter);
   });
 
-  // See https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/issues/4591#issuecomment-822372398
-  test('accept empty title', () => {
-    const frontMatter: BlogPostFrontMatter = {title: ''};
-    expect(validateBlogPostFrontMatter(frontMatter)).toEqual(frontMatter);
+  testField({
+    fieldName: 'description',
+    validFrontMatters: [
+      // See https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/issues/4591#issuecomment-822372398
+      {description: ''},
+      {description: 'description'},
+    ],
   });
 
-  // See https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/issues/4591#issuecomment-822372398
-  test('accept empty description', () => {
-    const frontMatter: BlogPostFrontMatter = {description: ''};
-    expect(validateBlogPostFrontMatter(frontMatter)).toEqual(frontMatter);
+  testField({
+    fieldName: 'title',
+    validFrontMatters: [
+      // See https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/issues/4591#issuecomment-822372398
+      {title: ''},
+      {title: 'title'},
+    ],
   });
 
-  // See https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/issues/4642
-  test('convert tags as numbers', () => {
-    const frontMatter: BlogPostFrontMatter = {
-      tags: [
-        // @ts-expect-error: number for test
-        42,
-        {
-          // @ts-expect-error: number for test
-          label: 84,
-          permalink: '/tagPermalink',
-        },
+  testField({
+    fieldName: 'id',
+    validFrontMatters: [{id: '123'}, {id: 'id'}],
+    invalidFrontMatters: [[{id: ''}, 'is not allowed to be empty']],
+  });
+
+  testField({
+    fieldName: 'author',
+    validFrontMatters: [{author: '123'}, {author: 'author'}],
+    invalidFrontMatters: [[{author: ''}, 'is not allowed to be empty']],
+  });
+
+  testField({
+    fieldName: 'authorTitle',
+    validFrontMatters: [{authorTitle: '123'}, {authorTitle: 'authorTitle'}],
+    invalidFrontMatters: [[{authorTitle: ''}, 'is not allowed to be empty']],
+  });
+
+  testField({
+    fieldName: 'author_title',
+    validFrontMatters: [{author_title: '123'}, {author_title: 'author_title'}],
+    invalidFrontMatters: [[{author_title: ''}, 'is not allowed to be empty']],
+  });
+
+  testField({
+    fieldName: 'authorURL',
+    validFrontMatters: [{authorURL: 'https://docusaurus.io'}],
+    invalidFrontMatters: [
+      [{authorURL: ''}, 'is not allowed to be empty'],
+      [{authorURL: '@site/api/author'}, 'must be a valid uri'],
+      [{authorURL: '../../api/author'}, 'must be a valid uri'],
+    ],
+  });
+
+  testField({
+    fieldName: 'author_url',
+    validFrontMatters: [{author_url: 'https://docusaurus.io'}],
+    invalidFrontMatters: [
+      [{author_url: ''}, 'is not allowed to be empty'],
+      [{author_url: '@site/api/author'}, 'must be a valid uri'],
+      [{author_url: '../../api/author'}, 'must be a valid uri'],
+    ],
+  });
+
+  testField({
+    fieldName: 'authorImageURL',
+    validFrontMatters: [
+      {authorImageURL: 'https://docusaurus.io/asset/image.png'},
+    ],
+    invalidFrontMatters: [
+      [{authorImageURL: ''}, 'is not allowed to be empty'],
+      [{authorImageURL: '@site/api/asset/image.png'}, 'must be a valid uri'],
+      [{authorImageURL: '../../api/asset/image.png'}, 'must be a valid uri'],
+    ],
+  });
+
+  testField({
+    fieldName: 'author_image_url',
+    validFrontMatters: [
+      {author_image_url: 'https://docusaurus.io/asset/image.png'},
+    ],
+    invalidFrontMatters: [
+      [{author_image_url: ''}, 'is not allowed to be empty'],
+      [{author_image_url: '@site/api/asset/image.png'}, 'must be a valid uri'],
+      [{author_image_url: '../../api/asset/image.png'}, 'must be a valid uri'],
+    ],
+  });
+
+  testField({
+    fieldName: 'slug',
+    validFrontMatters: [
+      {slug: 'blog/'},
+      {slug: '/blog'},
+      {slug: '/blog/'},
+      {slug: './blog'},
+      {slug: '../blog'},
+      {slug: '../../blog'},
+      {slug: '/api/plugins/@docusaurus/plugin-debug'},
+      {slug: '@site/api/asset/image.png'},
+    ],
+    invalidFrontMatters: [[{slug: ''}, 'is not allowed to be empty']],
+  });
+
+  testField({
+    fieldName: 'image',
+    validFrontMatters: [
+      {image: 'blog/'},
+      {image: '/blog'},
+      {image: '/blog/'},
+      {image: './blog'},
+      {image: '../blog'},
+      {image: '../../blog'},
+      {image: '/api/plugins/@docusaurus/plugin-debug'},
+      {image: '@site/api/asset/image.png'},
+    ],
+    invalidFrontMatters: [
+      [{image: ''}, 'is not allowed to be empty'],
+      [{image: 'https://docusaurus.io'}, 'must be a valid relative uri'],
+      [
+        {image: 'https://docusaurus.io/blog/image.png'},
+        'must be a valid relative uri',
       ],
-    };
-    expect(validateBlogPostFrontMatter(frontMatter)).toEqual({
-      tags: [
-        '42',
-        {
-          label: '84',
-          permalink: '/tagPermalink',
-        },
+    ],
+  });
+
+  testField({
+    fieldName: 'tags',
+    validFrontMatters: [
+      {tags: []},
+      {tags: ['hello']},
+      {tags: ['hello', 'world']},
+      {tags: ['hello', 'world']},
+      {tags: ['hello', {label: 'tagLabel', permalink: '/tagPermalink'}]},
+    ],
+    invalidFrontMatters: [
+      [{tags: ''}, 'must be an array'],
+      [{tags: ['']}, 'is not allowed to be empty'],
+    ],
+    // See https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/issues/4642
+    convertibleFrontMatter: [
+      [{tags: [42]}, {tags: ['42']}],
+      [
+        {tags: [{label: 84, permalink: '/tagPermalink'}]},
+        {tags: [{label: '84', permalink: '/tagPermalink'}]},
       ],
-    });
+    ],
+  });
+
+  testField({
+    fieldName: 'keywords',
+    validFrontMatters: [
+      {keywords: ['hello']},
+      {keywords: ['hello', 'world']},
+      {keywords: ['hello', 'world']},
+      {keywords: ['hello']},
+    ],
+    invalidFrontMatters: [
+      [{keywords: ''}, 'must be an array'],
+      [{keywords: ['']}, 'is not allowed to be empty'],
+      [{keywords: []}, 'does not contain 1 required value(s)'],
+    ],
+  });
+
+  testField({
+    fieldName: 'draft',
+    validFrontMatters: [{draft: true}, {draft: false}],
+    convertibleFrontMatter: [
+      [{draft: 'true'}, {draft: true}],
+      [{draft: 'false'}, {draft: false}],
+    ],
+    invalidFrontMatters: [
+      [{draft: 'yes'}, 'must be a boolean'],
+      [{draft: 'no'}, 'must be a boolean'],
+    ],
+  });
+
+  testField({
+    fieldName: 'hide_table_of_contents',
+    validFrontMatters: [
+      {hide_table_of_contents: true},
+      {hide_table_of_contents: false},
+    ],
+    convertibleFrontMatter: [
+      [{hide_table_of_contents: 'true'}, {hide_table_of_contents: true}],
+      [{hide_table_of_contents: 'false'}, {hide_table_of_contents: false}],
+    ],
+    invalidFrontMatters: [
+      [{hide_table_of_contents: 'yes'}, 'must be a boolean'],
+      [{hide_table_of_contents: 'no'}, 'must be a boolean'],
+    ],
+  });
+
+  testField({
+    fieldName: 'date',
+    validFrontMatters: [
+      // @ts-expect-error: number for test
+      {date: new Date('2020-01-01')},
+      {date: '2020-01-01'},
+      {date: '2020'},
+    ],
+    invalidFrontMatters: [
+      [{date: 'abc'}, 'must be a valid date'],
+      [{date: ''}, 'must be a valid date'],
+    ],
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/blogFrontMatter.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/blogFrontMatter.ts
index ed051aacba73..ca52a62efdb9 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/blogFrontMatter.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/blogFrontMatter.ts
@@ -5,13 +5,14 @@
  * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
  */
 
+/* eslint-disable camelcase */
+
 import {
   JoiFrontMatter as Joi, // Custom instance for frontmatter
   validateFrontMatter,
 } from '@docusaurus/utils-validation';
 import {Tag} from './types';
 
-// TODO complete this frontmatter + add unit tests
 export type BlogPostFrontMatter = {
   id?: string;
   title?: string;
@@ -19,7 +20,21 @@ export type BlogPostFrontMatter = {
   tags?: (string | Tag)[];
   slug?: string;
   draft?: boolean;
-  date?: string;
+  date?: Date;
+
+  author?: string;
+  author_title?: string;
+  author_url?: string;
+  author_image_url?: string;
+
+  image?: string;
+  keywords?: string[];
+  hide_table_of_contents?: boolean;
+
+  /** @deprecated */
+  authorTitle?: string;
+  authorURL?: string;
+  authorImageURL?: string;
 };
 
 // NOTE: we don't add any default value on purpose here
@@ -39,10 +54,31 @@ const BlogFrontMatterSchema = Joi.object<BlogPostFrontMatter>({
   title: Joi.string().allow(''),
   description: Joi.string().allow(''),
   tags: Joi.array().items(BlogTagSchema),
-  slug: Joi.string(),
   draft: Joi.boolean(),
-  date: Joi.string().allow(''), // TODO validate the date better!
-}).unknown();
+  date: Joi.date().raw(),
+
+  author: Joi.string(),
+  author_title: Joi.string(),
+  author_url: Joi.string().uri(),
+  author_image_url: Joi.string().uri(),
+  slug: Joi.string(),
+  image: Joi.string().uri({relativeOnly: true}),
+  keywords: Joi.array().items(Joi.string().required()),
+  hide_table_of_contents: Joi.boolean(),
+
+  // TODO re-enable warnings later, our v1 blog posts use those older frontmatter fields
+  authorURL: Joi.string().uri(),
+  // .warning('deprecate.error', { alternative: '"author_url"'}),
+  authorTitle: Joi.string(),
+  // .warning('deprecate.error', { alternative: '"author_title"'}),
+  authorImageURL: Joi.string().uri(),
+  // .warning('deprecate.error', { alternative: '"author_image_url"'}),
+})
+  .unknown()
+  .messages({
+    'deprecate.error':
+      '{#label} blog frontMatter field is deprecated. Please use {#alternative} instead.',
+  });
 
 export function validateBlogPostFrontMatter(
   frontMatter: Record<string, unknown>,
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/blogUtils.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/blogUtils.ts
index 759fb74973fc..dbcb29eefd5d 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/blogUtils.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/blogUtils.ts
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ export function getSourceToPermalink(
 
 // YYYY-MM-DD-{name}.mdx?
 // Prefer named capture, but older Node versions do not support it.
-const FILENAME_PATTERN = /^(\d{4}-\d{1,2}-\d{1,2})-?(.*?).mdx?$/;
+const DATE_FILENAME_PATTERN = /^(\d{4}-\d{1,2}-\d{1,2})-?(.*?).mdx?$/;
 
 function toUrl({date, link}: DateLink) {
   return `${date
@@ -165,24 +165,24 @@ export async function generateBlogPosts(
         );
       }
 
-      let date;
+      let date: Date | undefined;
       // Extract date and title from filename.
-      const match = blogFileName.match(FILENAME_PATTERN);
+      const dateFilenameMatch = blogFileName.match(DATE_FILENAME_PATTERN);
       let linkName = blogFileName.replace(/\.mdx?$/, '');
 
-      if (match) {
-        const [, dateString, name] = match;
+      if (dateFilenameMatch) {
+        const [, dateString, name] = dateFilenameMatch;
         date = new Date(dateString);
         linkName = name;
       }
 
       // Prefer user-defined date.
       if (frontMatter.date) {
-        date = new Date(frontMatter.date);
+        date = frontMatter.date;
       }
 
       // Use file create time for blog.
-      date = date || (await fs.stat(source)).birthtime;
+      date = date ?? (await fs.stat(source)).birthtime;
       const formattedDate = new Intl.DateTimeFormat(i18n.currentLocale, {
         day: 'numeric',
         month: 'long',
@@ -193,7 +193,8 @@ export async function generateBlogPosts(
       const description = frontMatter.description ?? excerpt ?? '';
 
       const slug =
-        frontMatter.slug || (match ? toUrl({date, link: linkName}) : linkName);
+        frontMatter.slug ||
+        (dateFilenameMatch ? toUrl({date, link: linkName}) : linkName);
 
       const permalink = normalizeUrl([baseUrl, routeBasePath, slug]);
 
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-utils-validation/src/__tests__/validationUtils.test.ts b/packages/docusaurus-utils-validation/src/__tests__/validationUtils.test.ts
index 45bc5ec1386b..7ecb1c081c96 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-utils-validation/src/__tests__/validationUtils.test.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-utils-validation/src/__tests__/validationUtils.test.ts
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ describe('validateFrontMatter', () => {
       validateFrontMatter(frontMatter, schema),
     ).toThrowErrorMatchingInlineSnapshot(`"\\"test\\" must be a string"`);
     expect(consoleError).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
-      expect.stringContaining('FrontMatter contains invalid values: '),
+      expect.stringContaining('The following FrontMatter'),
     );
   });
 
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-utils-validation/src/validationUtils.ts b/packages/docusaurus-utils-validation/src/validationUtils.ts
index 72a0f75a8907..4ad56e53ab6d 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-utils-validation/src/validationUtils.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-utils-validation/src/validationUtils.ts
@@ -106,21 +106,38 @@ export function validateFrontMatter<T>(
   frontMatter: Record<string, unknown>,
   schema: Joi.ObjectSchema<T>,
 ): T {
-  try {
-    return JoiFrontMatter.attempt(frontMatter, schema, {
-      convert: true,
-      allowUnknown: true,
-    });
-  } catch (e) {
+  const {value, error, warning} = schema.validate(frontMatter, {
+    convert: true,
+    allowUnknown: true,
+    abortEarly: false,
+  });
+
+  if (error) {
+    const frontMatterString = JSON.stringify(frontMatter, null, 2);
+    const errorDetails = error.details;
+    const invalidFields = errorDetails.map(({path}) => path).join(', ');
+    const errorMessages = errorDetails
+      .map(({message}) => ` - ${message}`)
+      .join('\n');
+
+    logValidationBugReportHint();
+
     console.error(
       chalk.red(
-        `FrontMatter contains invalid values: ${JSON.stringify(
-          frontMatter,
-          null,
-          2,
-        )}`,
+        `The following FrontMatter:\n${chalk.yellow(
+          frontMatterString,
+        )}\ncontains invalid values for field(s): ${invalidFields}.\n${errorMessages}\n`,
       ),
     );
-    throw e;
+    throw error;
+  }
+
+  if (warning) {
+    const warningMessages = warning.details
+      .map(({message}) => message)
+      .join('\n');
+    console.log(chalk.yellow(warningMessages));
   }
+
+  return value;
 }
diff --git a/website/docs/blog.md b/website/docs/blog.md
index 2aa5d2d649e9..91278891340d 100644
--- a/website/docs/blog.md
+++ b/website/docs/blog.md
@@ -55,16 +55,19 @@ A whole bunch of exploration to follow.
 
 The only required field is `title`; however, we provide options to add author information to your blog post as well along with other options.
 
-- `author` - The author name to be displayed.
-- `author_url` - The URL that the author's name will be linked to. This could be a GitHub, Twitter, Facebook profile URL, etc.
-- `author_image_url` - The URL to the author's thumbnail image.
-- `author_title` - A description of the author.
-- `title` - The blog post title.
-- `tags` - A list of strings to tag to your post.
-- `draft` - A boolean flag to indicate that the blog post is work-in-progress and therefore should not be published yet. However, draft blog posts will be displayed during development.
+- `author`: The author name to be displayed.
+- `author_url`: The URL that the author's name will be linked to. This could be a GitHub, Twitter, Facebook profile URL, etc.
+- `author_image_url`: The URL to the author's thumbnail image.
+- `author_title`: A description of the author.
+- `title`: The blog post title.
+- `slug`: Allows to customize the blog post url (`/<routeBasePath>/<slug>`). Support multiple patterns: `slug: my-blog-post`, `slug: /my/path/to/blog/post`, slug: `/`.
+- `date`: The blog post creation date. If not specified, this could be extracted from the file name, e.g, `2021-04-15-blog-post.mdx`. By default, it is the markdown file creation time.
+- `tags`: A list of strings or objects of two string fields `label` and `permalink` to tag to your post.
+- `draft`: A boolean flag to indicate that the blog post is work-in-progress and therefore should not be published yet. However, draft blog posts will be displayed during development.
 - `description`: The description of your post, which will become the `<meta name="description" content="..."/>` and `<meta property="og:description" content="..."/>` in `<head>`, used by search engines. If this field is not present, it will default to the first line of the contents.
+- `keywords`: Keywords meta tag, which will become the `<meta name="keywords" content="keyword1,keyword2,..."/>` in `<head>`, used by search engines.
 - `image`: Cover or thumbnail image that will be used when displaying the link to your post.
-- `hide_table_of_contents`: Whether to hide the table of contents to the right. By default it is `false`.
+- `hide_table_of_contents`: Whether to hide the table of contents to the right. By default, it is `false`.
 
 ## Summary truncation {#summary-truncation}