Section: Featured Blog

Everything you'll need to know on how to setup your Featured Blog section.

The Featured Blog section displays a grid of recent blog posts from any blog on your store. Each card shows the article's featured image, title, optional excerpt, author, date, comment count, and tags. Perfect for the homepage to drive traffic to your content marketing or for any page where you want to highlight your blog.

To activate this section you first have to add the section to your page. This can be done in a few small steps.

1) Click on Add section which can be found in your left sidebar.

2) Scroll down, or search for Featured Blog, then click on it.

3) Done — your Featured Blog section is added.

The general settings contain the content, card display, button, and spacing setup of the Featured Blog section. Simply click on the section to open the settings.

Select the color scheme for the section. You can pick from any of the schemes set up in Theme Settings → Colors. Controls the section background, heading text, card text, tag badges, and Read all button colors.

The main heading of the section, rendered as an H2 tag. Default: Explore Our Blog. For example: From the journal, Latest stories, or Our blog. Leave empty to hide.

Select the blog whose posts will be displayed. Pick from any of the blogs configured in Online Store → Blog posts → Manage blogs. The most recent posts from this blog are shown first.

Maximum number of posts to display, between 2 and 6. Default: 3 — a balanced single-row grid. Match this to your Columns (desktop) value (e.g. 3 posts × 3 columns) for a clean look.

Number of columns on desktop, between 2 and 4. Default: 3. With 3 posts and 3 columns, all posts fit in one row. Mobile always shows 1 column.

The settings under Card settings control which metadata appears on each blog card. Untick to hide individual elements for a cleaner look.

Tick this box to display the article's author name in the card footer (e.g. By Jane Smith). Default: on.

Tick this box to display the article's publish date in the card footer (formatted as DD.MM.YYYY). Default: on. Useful to show how recent your content is.

Tick this box to display the number of comments next to a chat icon (e.g. 2 comments). Default: on. Hide if your blog doesn't have comments enabled.

Tick this box to display a short preview text below the title. Pulls from the article's excerpt; falls back to the first 120 characters of the content if no excerpt is set. Default: on.

Tick this box to display the article's tags as pills below the image. The first tag also appears as a badge overlaid on the featured image. Tags link to filtered blog views. Default: on.

Tick this box to display a Read all button below the grid. Useful for pointing visitors to the full blog index. Default: on.

The label shown on the Read all button. Default: Read all. For example: View all stories, See more, or Browse the blog.

Optional custom URL for the Read all button. If left empty, the button automatically links to the selected blog's index page. Override this only if you want the button to go somewhere else (e.g. a category page).

Space above the section in pixels (0–120). Default: 60 px.

Space below the section in pixels (0–120). Default: 60 px.

The featured image of each article is set when you create or edit the post in Online Store → Blog posts. Add an image in the Featured image field. The section automatically pulls and displays it. Articles without a featured image show a placeholder.

When editing a blog post, expand the Excerpt field below the editor and write a short preview text. The section uses this excerpt when Show excerpt is on. If no excerpt is set, the section auto-generates one from the first 120 characters of the post content.

Only published articles from the selected blog appear. Drafts, scheduled posts, and unpublished articles are hidden until they go live. Verify the post status in Online Store → Blog posts. Posts are displayed newest-first up to the Number of posts limit.

Each Featured Blog section displays posts from one blog only. To show posts from multiple blogs, add a separate Featured Blog section per blog and pick a different blog in each.

The author shown is the first name of the Shopify staff account that published the post. To change it, edit the staff name in Settings → Users. Dates use the publication date — to change, set the Visibility date when editing the post.