# Blog posts

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To add this section, please follow the below steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, go to **Online Store** **->** **Themes**.
2. Find the theme that you want to edit, and then click **Customize**.
3. Click **Add section** and choose "**Blog posts**".

## Section settings <a href="#section-settings-1" id="section-settings-1"></a>

<table><thead><tr><th width="276">Setting</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Heading</td><td>The title for this section.</td></tr><tr><td>Heading style</td><td><p>Style of the heading:</p><ul><li>Default</li><li><strong>Marquee from left to right</strong> - Scrolls text horizontally on the screen, starting from the left side and moving towards the right.</li><li><strong>Marquee from right to left</strong> - Scrolls text horizontally on the screen, starting from the right side and moving towards the left.</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td>Heading size</td><td><p>The size of the heading text:</p><ul><li>Small</li><li>Medium</li><li>Large</li><li>Extra large</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td>Heading alignment</td><td><p>The alignment of the heading text and description within the section container:</p><ul><li><strong>Left</strong> - Aligns the heading and description to the left.</li><li><strong>Center (default)</strong> - Aligns the heading and description in the center.</li><li><strong>Right</strong> - Aligns the heading and description to the right.</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td>Description</td><td>The description for this section.</td></tr><tr><td>Blog</td><td>The blog you want to display blog posts from.</td></tr><tr><td>Number of blog posts to show</td><td>Determines the number of blog posts to show on this section.</td></tr><tr><td>Color scheme</td><td>Set the color of the section.</td></tr><tr><td>Show featured image</td><td>Displays the featured image for the blog post. For best results, use an image with a 3:2 aspect ratio.</td></tr><tr><td>Show date</td><td>Displays the date that the blog post was published.</td></tr><tr><td>Show author</td><td>Displays the author of the blog post.</td></tr><tr><td>Show short description</td><td>Displays the short description of the blog post.</td></tr><tr><td>Show comment count</td><td>Displays the the number of published comments of the blog post.</td></tr><tr><td>Enable "View all" button if blog includes more blog posts than shown</td><td>Displays the "<strong>View all</strong>" button if collection has more products than the "<strong>Number of blog posts to show</strong>" setting.</td></tr></tbody></table>

#### Section padding

<table><thead><tr><th width="278">Setting</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Top padding</td><td>Determines the height of the top inner space of the section. Can be from 0px to 150px, increasing arithmetically of 2px (pixel).</td></tr><tr><td>Bottom padding</td><td>Determines the height of the bottom inner space of the section. Can be from 0px to 150px, increasing arithmetically of 2px (pixel).</td></tr></tbody></table>