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# Blog posts

Show your latest blog posts on any page. Use it to share news, tips and product stories.

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The **Blog posts** section shows the latest posts from one of your blogs, with their featured image, title, date, author and a short excerpt. Shoppers click a post to read it.

### 1. Our guide to set up a Blog posts section:

{% hint style="info" %}
**Steps:**

* In the theme editor, click **Add section.**
* Locate **Blog posts.**
* Click **Save.**
  {% endhint %}

### 2. Section settings

* **Section header**
  * **Heading:** The title above the posts. Leave it blank to hide it.
  * **Heading size:** 15–80px.
  * **Heading alignment:** Left / Center. With **Left**, the **View all** link sits next to the heading. With **Center**, it becomes a **View all** button below the posts.
* **General**
  * **Blog:** The blog to show posts from.
  * **Blog posts:** How many of the latest posts to show, 2–4.
  * **Show featured image:** Shows each post's featured image.
  * **Image ratio:** Adapt to image / Square / Portrait / Landscape.
  * **Show date:** Shows the date the post was published.
  * **Show author:** Shows the post's author.
  * **Enable "View all" button if blog includes more blog posts than shown:** Adds a link to your blog. It only appears when the blog has more posts than the section shows.
  * **Color scheme:** The colors of the section.
* **Corner radius**
  * **Corner radius:** 0–40px. With the **Background 1** color scheme, it rounds the post images. With any other scheme, it rounds the whole post card.
* **Section padding**
  * **Top padding** and **Bottom padding:** 0–100px.

Each post shows the first 30 words of its excerpt. If a post has no excerpt, the first 30 words of its content are shown instead.

### 3. How to add a blog post to your online store:

* From your **Shopify admin**, go to **Content** → **Blog posts** → **Add blog post**.
* For the **Blog posts** section to look its best, give every post a **Title**, **Content**, a **Featured image** and an **Excerpt**.

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* Click **Save**.

### 4. Tips

* Write a short excerpt (under 30 words) for each post so the text isn't cut off mid-sentence.
* Use featured images with a similar shape, or pick an **Image ratio** other than **Adapt to image**, so the cards line up.
* Want one large post next to a list of others? Try [Blog: Featured article](/articles/sections/theme-sections/blog-featured-article.md).