Hero Focus
A full width hero centered on a single article with a large cover image. Use it to launch a flagship post and pull readers straight into it.
A full width hero centered on a single article with a large cover image. Use it to launch a flagship post and pull readers straight into it.
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Hero Focus is a two-zone blog section. The top zone is a full-width image panel that fills most of the viewport: a large cover photo sits behind a dark gradient, and overlaid on the lower portion are a category badge, headline, excerpt paragraph, an author row with avatar, publish date, and read time, Share and Save buttons, and a prominent "Read Full Article" call to action. Below that, a muted panel labelled "Trending Articles" holds a heading, a subtitle, a "View All" link, and a horizontally scrollable carousel of article cards. Each card shows a cover image with a category badge, title, excerpt, author avatar, date, and a "Read" link.
The featured post and the trending list are fully independent. You can swap the cover image, rewrite the headline and excerpt, reassign the author name, and change the date and read time without affecting the carousel. The trending carousel accepts any number of cards and loops continuously, so adding or removing posts only changes how many cards appear per slide.
Reach for this block when you want one piece of content to command the whole fold before offering more to explore. It works well on the home page of a project management workspace blog, where a flagship guide like a release announcement or methodology deep dive earns its own cinematic moment, and the trending carousel keeps readers moving to related posts. Compared to a standard grid index, this layout gives the lead story far more weight and draws readers in before surfacing the broader catalog.
A natural flow around it on a Marketing (Legacy) page:
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The block splits cleanly into a hero slot and a carousel row, each swappable on its own:
Tip: keep the featured post excerpt to two or three sentences so the hero text stays legible against the dark overlay on smaller screens.