Dispatch
The latest articles from a blog you choose, as up to three large cards: a 16:10 image, the publication date and first tag in accent, and the title in the display face. Pulled live from the blog, so publishing a new post updates the homepage.
“Dispatch” is the default name because on a drop store the blog usually is one — drop announcements, process notes, lookbook write-ups — rather than an SEO content programme.
Settings
Section titled “Settings”| Setting | Type | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | Blog | — | Which blog to pull from. With nothing set, placeholder cards render so the layout is visible in the editor. |
| Heading | Text | Dispatch | Section heading. Falls back to the blog’s own title if you clear it. |
| Side note | Text | All entries | Side note on the right. It always links to the chosen blog’s index — you do not set a URL. |
| Max products | Range, 1–3, step 1 | 3 | How many articles to show. This is also the column count. |
| Image focal point | Select — Top / Upper / Centre / Lower / Bottom | center | What stays in frame when article images are cropped to 16:10. |
| Colour scheme | Select — Default / Light / Deep | default | Which ground the section sits on. |
| Top spacing | Range, 0–160 px | 48 | Top spacing. |
| Bottom spacing | Range, 0–160 px | 48 | Bottom spacing. |
No blocks. One preset, Dispatch.
Behaviour worth knowing
Section titled “Behaviour worth knowing”Columns equal articles. limit sets both how many articles are pulled and how many columns they sit in — one, two or three. There is no separate columns setting and no second row. Below 760 px they stack.
The meta line is the date plus the first tag. It shows the published date in abbreviated form, and if the article has tags, a dot and the first one. You control what appears there by controlling the order of the article’s tags in Shopify admin.
No excerpts. The card is image, meta, title — nothing else. The title is capped at a 26-character measure so it breaks into two or three display-face lines, which is what gives the card its weight. Write headline-length titles.
The image zooms on hover and the title shifts to the accent colour; the whole card is one link.
Articles with no image get an empty tile rather than a placeholder, so set a featured image on every post you expect to appear here.