Compact Thumbnail List

Blog11: Compact Thumbnail List

A two-column compact blog list where each post is a full-row link pairing a small square thumbnail with its first tag, date, single-line title, author name, and read time, above an optional centered header of badge, heading, and description.

Installation

Swap YOUR_EMAIL and YOUR_KEY for the email and license key on your account. Find your license key on your account page.

Radix flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r/blog11?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

Base UI flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r-base/blog11?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

This installs the block to components/beste/block/blog11.tsx, plus the badge shadcn/ui primitive it uses for the section eyebrow.

Quick start

The installed file exports blog11Demo alongside the block: the exact props behind the preview above. Spread it to get a working compact post list in one line.

import { Blog11, blog11Demo } from "@/components/beste/block/blog11";

export default function BlogPage() {
  return <Blog11 {...blog11Demo} />;
}

Then replace the demo with your own props. Written out, a trimmed setup looks like this:

import { Blog11 } from "@/components/beste/block/blog11";

export default function BlogPage() {
  return (
    <Blog11
      badge={{ label: "Quick Reads", variant: "default" }}
      heading="Latest Updates"
      description="Stay informed with our most recent articles."
      posts={[
        {
          image: { src: "/posts/design-systems.jpg", alt: "Design systems" },
          title: "The Future of Design Systems",
          summary: "Exploring how design systems are evolving.",
          date: "January 15, 2026",
          readTime: "8 min",
          author: { name: "Lisa Park" },
          tags: [{ label: "Design", href: "/blog/design-systems" }],
          href: "/blog/design-systems",
        },
      ]}
    />
  );
}

Props

type Author = {
  name: string;
  title?: string;
  avatar?: { src: string; alt: string };
  href?: string;
};

type Tag = {
  label: string;
  href?: string;
};

type BlogPost = {
  image: { src: string; alt: string };
  title: string;
  summary: string;
  date?: string;
  readTime?: string;
  author?: Author;
  tags?: Tag[];
  href?: string;
};

Behavior notes

• The centered header block is only rendered when at least one of badge, heading, or description is provided; with all three omitted the grid renders alone.
• badge.variant falls back to "default" when unset, and the whole badge is skipped if badge itself is absent.
• Each post is wrapped in a Next.js Link whose href defaults to "#" when post.href is missing, so a post with no link still renders as a clickable no-op anchor.
• Only the first tag is ever shown (post.tags?.[0]) and it renders as plain text: neither tag.href nor any additional tags are used.
• Several declared BlogPost fields are never rendered by this layout: summary, author.title, author.avatar, author.href, and every tag past the first are accepted by the type but silently dropped.
• post.title is capped to a single line via line-clamp-1, so long titles are truncated with an ellipsis rather than wrapping.
• readTime is prefixed with a middot separator and only shown when present; the middot does not appear if readTime is omitted, and the author name renders on its own.
• Rows use the array index as their React key, so reordering or filtering posts in place can confuse reconciliation.