Sidebar with Categories

Blog13: Sidebar with Categories

A two-column blog index whose main column stacks horizontal post cards (image beside title, tag badge, summary, author avatar and date) and whose sidebar lists categories with post counts and a wrap of clickable popular-tag badges, all wrapped in an optional badge, heading, and description header.

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/blog13?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

Base UI flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r-base/blog13?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

This installs the block to components/beste/block/blog13.tsx, plus the badge and avatar shadcn/ui primitives it uses for the eyebrow/tag badges and the author avatars.

Quick start

The installed file exports blog13Demo alongside the block: the exact props behind the preview above. Spread it to get a working blog index with sidebar in one line.

import { Blog13, blog13Demo } from "@/components/beste/block/blog13";

export default function BlogPage() {
  return <Blog13 {...blog13Demo} />;
}

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

import { Blog13 } from "@/components/beste/block/blog13";

export default function BlogPage() {
  return (
    <Blog13
      badge={{ label: "Blog", variant: "default" }}
      heading="Latest Articles"
      description="Insights and tutorials from our team."
      posts={[
        {
          image: { src: "/posts/design-systems.jpg", alt: "Design systems" },
          title: "The Future of Design Systems",
          summary: "How design systems evolve to meet complex web apps.",
          date: "January 15, 2026",
          readTime: "8 min read",
          author: { name: "Lisa Park", title: "Senior Developer" },
          tags: [{ label: "Design", href: "/blog/design" }],
          href: "/blog/design-systems",
        },
      ]}
      categories={[
        { label: "All Posts", count: 24, href: "/blog" },
        { label: "Design", count: 8, href: "/blog/design" },
      ]}
      popularTags={[
        { label: "React", href: "/blog/tags/react" },
        { label: "TypeScript", href: "/blog/tags/typescript" },
      ]}
    />
  );
}

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;
};

type Category = {
  label: string;
  count?: number;
  href?: string;
};

Behavior notes

• The header block only renders when at least one of badge, heading, or description is supplied; with all three omitted the grid starts at the top of the section.
• Each post card is a fixed horizontal layout: the image is a next/link that fills a sm:w-48 md:w-56 panel and scales to 105% on hover, while the title link tints to text-primary on the same group hover. Cards do not stack vertically at desktop width.
• Only the first tag of each post (post.tags?.[0]) is rendered as an outline badge; any further entries in tags are ignored.
• post.readTime and author.title are accepted by the types but never displayed; the card footer shows only the author avatar, author.name, and date.
• The author Avatar renders only when author.avatar exists; its fallback initials are derived by splitting author.name on spaces and joining the first letters.
• The Categories and Popular Tags sidebar cards each render only when their array is non-empty; a category count is shown as (count) only when count is not undefined, so a count of 0 still displays.
• Every link falls back to href="#" when its href is omitted, and the block is presentational: it exposes no callbacks, no internal state, and no active-category filtering.