Content & Dashboard

Blog Post Card

Vertical blog post card with cover image, category eyebrow, title, excerpt, and author/date/read-time meta row.

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bash

$ velocityx add blog-post-card

Built for astro.

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astro v1.0.0

Blog Post Card

Engineering

Shipping faster with a JSON-driven page layer

How we cut a brand port from two weeks of Astro edits down to a single config swap.

Aiden Wood 16 Oct 2026 · 6 min read

Props

Name	Type	Required	Default
href	string	No	'#'
title	string	No	'Shipping faster with a JSON-driven page layer'
excerpt	string	No	'How we cut a brand port from two weeks of Astro edits down to a single config swap.'
category	string	No	'Engineering'
coverSrc	string	No
coverAlt	string	No	''
authorName	string	No	'Aiden Wood'
authorAvatarSrc	string	No
date	string \| Date	No	new Date()
readTimeMins	number	No	6
locale	string	No	'en-AU'
headingLevel	1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6	Yes
dateFormatter	(date: Date) => string	No
className	string	No	''

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The CLI writes this path into your project, relative to its root — nothing else moves.

text

components/velocity/blog-post-card/BlogPostCard.astro

Using the Blog Post Card component

Install it with velocityx add blog-post-card. The CLI writes the source straight into your project — no runtime dependency, no registry lock-in, and it themes itself from the same primary-*/accent-* scale as the rest of the library.

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