Display recent and featured articles with the Blog block.
To add this Block, navigate to Add New Block, and select Blog from the categories:
There are a few styles you can choose from:
Featured Articles 1
Simple layout to showcase your latest blog posts with centered title.
There are a few basic options you can customize with this style:
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Background Color
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Title/Title Look Like/Title Color
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Categories
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Post Count (control how much posts to display - default is 3)
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Adjust Featured Image Size(Fit/Crop)
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Show 'Read More'
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Button Text/Button Link
Example:
Featured Articles 2
Blog layout with some additional features you can include, which are:
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Background (Image/ Solid Color)
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Content (Text)
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Button/Button Color
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Custom Blog Feed
This style is split into 4 sections, we will go over through each one:
Background
For Background you can include an image, or select a solid color.
Note: If you select an Image, you will be able to add an overlay to it.
Content
You can add a Title, Text, Button, and a Button Link to the block.
Blog Feed
You can select Categories or enable a Custom Blog Post Feed, which allows you to manually select which posts you want to feature.
As you enable the Custom Blog Post, a dropdown will appear where you can select each of the previous blog posts you have created. It also has a search feature in case you have a large number of posts, you can easily filter out the posts you want to feature.
Content Settings
And lastly, content settings allows you to customize things like:
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Title Color
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Title Look Like
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Text Color
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Post Title Look Like
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Adjust Featured Image Size (Crop/Fit)
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Advanced Button Styling(Button Color/Button Text Color/Button Hover Color/Button Text Color)
Example:
