How to highlight featured blog posts on Webflow?

The importance of featuring blog posts

To enhance users' engagement in your blog page, designers would tinker with the design to give the recognition and importance to highlight their best articles or content.

This approach usually sets the tone for the quality of content that your audience can expect when they land on your page.

How to feature your blog posts

Create and link CMS Collections

Begin by creating CMS collections if you haven't already for your featured posts section. Normally the section will be on top to highlight the featured blog posts. Make sure to link the relevant content to the collections appropriately.

Implement featured filter

For the section that highlights featured blog posts:

In the element settings of your Featured Posts section, add a filter to only show posts where the ‘Featured?’ field is set to ‘on’.

CMS Settings:

Adding a switch or boolean field type to your CMS that you can toggle for each post you want to feature. 

Set up sort order

In the element settings of your blog post collection, set up a sort order. This could be based on the date published (eg. to show the newest first) or any other criteria relevant to your website’s needs.

Limit display item

Set the number of featured posts to display by configuring the ‘Limit Items’ setting. You might want to limit this to 1 post or 3-5 posts to keep the section focused and engaging.