Blog posts
Add the Blogs posts section to display your latest posts.
Use the Grid or Featured post style to showcase the most recent posts.
Display Category text that shows scrolling post tags on featured posts.
Customize the appearance and details of blog post cards.
Set up section
In the editor side panel, click (+) Add section and select Blog posts. Click and hold the drag handles ⋮⋮ to re-order sections.
Click the section to add a section header and change section styles for colors and spacing.
Select blog posts to show
The section uses your blog post's Featured image, Title, Content, Tags, Published date and Author. See Shopify's guides to create a blog ↗ and add blog posts ↗.
Select which posts to display, and choose how many you want to show.
Click Blog posts section to find settings
Blog
Select a blog to display its latest posts, from newest to oldest. Click Change to select a different blog.
Number of articles
Choose how many posts to display in the section.
1 - 8
Default: 6
Use grid or featured article style
Choose a section layout. Display all posts as a Grid or use the Featured article style to showcase your most recent post.
Click Blog posts section to find settings
Style
Change the layout of the blog posts. Featured article: Displays the most recent article as the largest post and the rest in the sidebar. Grid: Displays the 2 most recent articles as cards and the rest in the sidebar.
Featured article Default Grid
Featured article color scheme
Select a set of colors to apply to the featured article. You can add and define different color schemes in Theme settings > Colors. Learn more
Enable scrolling category text
Show a scrolling text bar with the featured post's tags when hovered over. You can also change the Scroll direction and speed.
From your Shopify Admin, go to Blogs and click to open your blog post. Enter tags in the Tags section that you want to appear in the scrolling category text.
Click Blog posts section to find settings
Enable scrolling category text on hover
Show an auto-scrolling bar with the featured post's tag.
Scroll duration
Set the number of seconds it takes for the category text to fully rotate.
5 - 45 seconds Default: 10
Scroll direction
Choose which way the category text moves.
Left Default Right
Customize blog post cards
Change the visual style of the featured posts, including the image aspect ratio, blog post details, and button.
Change image aspect ratio
Change the aspect ratio to crop post images to be a uniform shape.
Click Blog posts section to find settings
Image aspect ratio
Select an aspect ratio to crop images to be a uniform shape, or select Natural to display images in their original shape.
Natural Default Portrait (2:3) Portrait (4:5) Square (1:1) Landscape (5:4) Landscape (3:2)
Show blog post details
Choose which blog post details to show.
To edit the post details, go to Online Store > Blog posts from the Shopify admin.
Click Blog posts section to find settings
Show article tags
Shows tags that you've added to posts in the Shopify admin.
Show author
Display the name of who created the blog post.
Show published date
Display the date when the post was published.
Show excerpt
When checked, the first few lines of the post will appear below. You can add a custom excerpt to blog posts in your Shopify admin.
Show read more button
Click Blog posts section to find settings
Show "Read more" button
Display a button that links to the blog post.
Button style
Change the style of the "Read more" button.
Solid Outline Default Text
Customize latest posts sidebar
The Latest posts sidebar display the remaining posts from your blog, next to the featured posts.
Click Blog posts section to find settings
Enable thumbnail hover effect
Display the blog post image when hovering over an article in the sidebar.
Heading
The title of latest posts sidebar.
Default: "Latest post"
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