Quad Ledger

Blog49: Quad Ledger

An image-free blog index that opens with a Badge6 eyebrow and a two-column heading band above a hairline rule, then lists linked stories as bordered cards where every card pairs a zero-padded accent counter with a bold headline, a category-and-date kicker, a summary, and a byline. No image is rendered anywhere in the block, and an optional Button1 seal button closes the section below the grid.

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/blog49?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

Base UI flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r-base/blog49?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

This installs the block to components/beste/block/blog49.tsx and its dependencies, including the Badge6 and Button1 components it renders.

Quick start

The installed file exports blog49Demo alongside the block: the exact props behind the preview above. Spread it to get a working index in one line.

import { Blog49, blog49Demo } from "@/components/beste/block/blog49";

export default function Page() {
  return <Blog49 {...blog49Demo} />;
}

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

import { Blog49 } from "@/components/beste/block/blog49";

export default function Page() {
  return (
    <Blog49
      label="Press office"
      heading="Company announcements"
      description="Statements and filings issued by the communications office, listed in order of release."
      items={[
        {
          category: "Operations",
          title: "Second storage site opens in Aragon",
          summary:
            "The facility connects to the regional transmission network in April.",
          date: "February 4, 2026",
          author: { name: "Maria Santos", title: "Tech Lead" },
          href: "/press/aragon-storage",
        },
        {
          category: "Governance",
          title: "Board appoints a new audit committee chair",
          summary:
            "The appointment takes effect at the close of the annual general meeting.",
          date: "January 27, 2026",
          author: { name: "David Chen" },
          href: "/press/audit-chair",
        },
      ]}
      button={{ label: "Full press archive", href: "/press" }}
    />
  );
}

Props

type Article = {
  category: string;
  title: string;
  summary: string;
  date: string;
  author: Author;
  href: string;
};

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

type ActionButton = {
  label: string;
  href: string;
};

Behavior notes

• Two independent breakpoints drive the layout. The heading band stacks until md, where it splits into two columns and the description bottom-aligns to the right edge. The story grid stacks until sm, where it becomes two columns; the heading band therefore stays single-column while the grid is already paired.
• Cards are separated by a real gap-6 and each carries its own border, so an odd item count simply leaves the trailing cell empty instead of stranding a rule. The rule under the heading band always renders, with or without label, heading, and description.
• The block is not fixed at four items despite the 2x2 preview. The counter is String(index + 1).padStart(2, "0"), so it reads 01 through 09 and then widens to 10 and beyond without truncating.
• author.avatar and author.href exist on the interface but are never rendered: the byline is plain text built as By {name} with , {title} appended only when title is set, and the avatar is dropped because the whole card is already a single Next.js Link to item.href. The kicker joins category and date with a middot and prints both verbatim with no date formatting.
• Hover is styling only: the headline shifts to text-primary on card hover. Cards are keyed by array index rather than href, so reordering items remounts rather than reorders them.