# Featured Blog

The **Blog Posts Section** allows you to display recent or featured blog posts on your Shopify store, helping to engage visitors and improve SEO. You can customize its layout, aspect ratio, text alignment, and enable features like author name, comments, and excerpts.

1. **Go to** Shopify Admin > **Online Store > Themes**.
2. Click **Customize** on your active theme.
3. In the Theme Editor, click **Add Section > Blog Posts**.

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<table><thead><tr><th width="308"></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Expand to full width</td><td>Enable for full width view. (Controls the container width)</td></tr><tr><td>Color scheme</td><td>Select any color scheme defined in the theme settings > Colors > Schemes.</td></tr><tr><td>Heading</td><td>Add the heading content.</td></tr><tr><td>Heading size</td><td><p>Select the heading size.</p><ul><li>Minimal</li><li>Standard</li><li>Big</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td>Text</td><td>Add a description for the section.</td></tr><tr><td>Content alignment</td><td><p>Choose content alignment.</p><ul><li>Left</li><li>Center</li><li>Right</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Layout</strong></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Blog</td><td>Selects the blog to feature in the section.</td></tr><tr><td>Aspect ratio</td><td><p>Controls how images are displayed within the section.</p><ul><li><strong>Auto:</strong> Displays images in their original dimensions. Use this option only if all product images have consistent sizes.</li><li><strong>1:1</strong> – Displays images in a square aspect ratio.</li><li><strong>3:4 –</strong> Crops images to a portrait format.</li><li><strong>4:3 –</strong> Crops images to a landscape format.</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td>Blogs to display</td><td>Set the total number of blog display.</td></tr><tr><td>Blog style</td><td><p>Select the blog layout style.</p><ul><li>Regular</li><li>Stepped</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td>Desktop column</td><td>Set the number of blogs per row.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Carousel settings</strong></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Enable carousel</td><td>Enable slider for blog card.</td></tr><tr><td>Controls</td><td><p>Choose pagination style.</p><ul><li>Dots</li><li>Arrow</li><li>None</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td>Controls style</td><td><p>Choose content alignment.</p><ul><li>Artistic</li><li>Bold</li><li>Regular</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td>Change slides every</td><td>Customize the slide's delay time in seconds. If set to 0, autoplay will be disabled.</td></tr><tr><td>Space</td><td>Adjust the spacing range between the blog.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Blog post card</strong></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Show featured image</td><td>Enable to view blog image.</td></tr><tr><td>Show date</td><td>Enable to show date on the blog card.</td></tr><tr><td>Show author</td><td>Enable to show author name on the blog card.</td></tr><tr><td>Show comments</td><td>Enable to show number of comments on the blog.</td></tr><tr><td>Show excerpts</td><td>Enable to show short description.</td></tr><tr><td>Show tag</td><td>Enable to show the tag on the blog.</td></tr><tr><td>Show read more</td><td>Enable to show button on the blog card.</td></tr><tr><td>Enable view all</td><td>Enable to display a 'View all' button when blog exceed the set limit.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Curve</strong></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Style</td><td><p>Choose the curve style.</p><ul><li>None</li><li>Top only</li><li>Bottom only</li><li>Top and Bottom</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td>Opacity</td><td>Adjust the opacity range for the curve style.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Section space</strong></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Top space</td><td>Adjust top spacing for the section.</td></tr><tr><td>Bottom space</td><td>Adjust bottom spacing for the section.</td></tr></tbody></table>


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