# Simple 06

> A heading beside a subscribe form, a category filter, and a two-column grid of horizontal posts.

URL: https://apogee.avaui.dev/docs/blog-sections/simple-06
Last updated: 2026-10-20

A heading beside a subscribe form, a category filter, and a two-column grid of horizontal posts.

Last updated October 20, 2026

Live example: https://apogee.avaui.dev/examples/blog/simple-06

```astro
---
/**
 * Simple 06: A heading beside a subscribe form, a category filter, and a two-column grid of horizontal posts.
 *
 * @block blog
 * @order 10
 */
import Section from '@/components/apogee/Section/Section.astro'
import SectionHeader from '@/components/apogee/SectionHeader/SectionHeader.astro'
import PostCard from '@/components/apogee/PostCard/PostCard.astro'
import { plain } from '@/components/apogee/sections/_shared/spine.ts'
import { toCard, type BlogContent, type Post } from '@/components/apogee/sections/_shared/blog.ts'
import Grid from '@/components/apogee/Grid/Grid.astro'
import Tabs from '@/components/apogee/Tabs/Tabs.astro'
import Select from '@/components/apogee/Select/Select.astro'
import Pagination from '@/components/apogee/Pagination/Pagination.astro'
import Input from '@/components/apogee/Input/Input.astro'
import Button from '@/components/apogee/Button/Button.astro'
import Link from '@/components/apogee/Link/Link.astro'

const demoPosts: Post[] = [
  {
    title: 'Designing review sessions people look forward to',
    href: '#',
    excerpt: 'How to run critiques that sharpen the work instead of draining the room.',
    date: '2026-01-20',
    readingTime: '8 min read',
    image: { src: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/apogee-blog-1/960/640', alt: '', width: 960, height: 640 },
    category: { name: 'Design', href: '#' },
    author: { name: 'Ada Lovelace', href: '#' },
    tags: [{ name: 'Design', href: '#', color: 'primary' }, { name: 'Research', href: '#', color: 'neutral' }, { name: 'Process', href: '#', color: 'positive' }],
  },
  {
    title: 'Migrating to a typed component library',
    href: '#',
    excerpt: 'What changed when we moved two hundred screens onto one set of typed parts.',
    date: '2026-01-19',
    readingTime: '6 min read',
    image: { src: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/apogee-blog-2/960/640', alt: '', width: 960, height: 640 },
    category: { name: 'Engineering', href: '#' },
    author: { name: 'Alan Turing', href: '#' },
    tags: [{ name: 'Engineering', href: '#', color: 'primary' }, { name: 'Tooling', href: '#', color: 'neutral' }],
  },
  {
    title: 'Building your first internal API',
    href: '#',
    excerpt: 'The shape of a small API that teams can grow without rewriting.',
    date: '2026-01-18',
    readingTime: '7 min read',
    image: { src: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/apogee-blog-3/960/640', alt: '', width: 960, height: 640 },
    category: { name: 'Engineering', href: '#' },
    author: { name: 'Grace Hopper', href: '#' },
    tags: [{ name: 'Engineering', href: '#', color: 'primary' }, { name: 'APIs', href: '#', color: 'warning' }],
  },
  {
    title: 'A field guide to product discovery',
    href: '#',
    excerpt: 'Questions that turn a vague request into something you can build.',
    date: '2026-01-16',
    readingTime: '5 min read',
    image: { src: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/apogee-blog-4/960/640', alt: '', width: 960, height: 640 },
    category: { name: 'Product', href: '#' },
    author: { name: 'Katherine Johnson', href: '#' },
    tags: [{ name: 'Product', href: '#', color: 'primary' }, { name: 'Research', href: '#', color: 'neutral' }],
  },
  {
    title: 'Writing release notes people read',
    href: '#',
    excerpt: 'Lead with what changed for the reader, not what changed in the code.',
    date: '2026-01-15',
    readingTime: '4 min read',
    image: { src: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/apogee-blog-5/960/640', alt: '', width: 960, height: 640 },
    category: { name: 'Product', href: '#' },
    author: { name: 'Margaret Hamilton', href: '#' },
    tags: [{ name: 'Product', href: '#', color: 'primary' }, { name: 'Writing', href: '#', color: 'positive' }],
  },
  {
    title: 'Leadership lessons from a year of remote teams',
    href: '#',
    excerpt: 'Rituals, writing and trust: what held a distributed team together.',
    date: '2026-01-14',
    readingTime: '9 min read',
    image: { src: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/apogee-blog-6/960/640', alt: '', width: 960, height: 640 },
    category: { name: 'Leadership', href: '#' },
    author: { name: 'Alan Kay', href: '#' },
    tags: [{ name: 'Leadership', href: '#', color: 'primary' }, { name: 'Remote', href: '#', color: 'neutral' }],
  },
]
const demoCategories = [
  { label: 'View all', value: 'all', href: '#' },
  { label: 'Design', value: 'design', href: '#design' },
  { label: 'Product', value: 'product', href: '#product' },
  { label: 'Engineering', value: 'engineering', href: '#engineering' },
  { label: 'Leadership', value: 'leadership', href: '#leadership' },
  { label: 'Marketing', value: 'marketing', href: '#marketing' },
]

/** @composable */
interface Props extends BlogContent {
  /** The sign-up form's submit button. @category content */
  submitLabel?: string
}

const {
  eyebrow = 'Our blog',
  heading = 'Stories and interviews',
  description = 'Subscribe to learn about new product features, the latest in technology, solutions, and updates.',
  items = demoPosts,
  locale = Astro.currentLocale ?? 'en',
  categories = demoCategories,
  submitLabel = 'Subscribe',
} = Astro.props

---

<Section spacing="large">
  <SectionHeader eyebrow={eyebrow ?? undefined} heading={plain(heading)} description={description ?? undefined} headingLevel={1} class="mb-12">
    <div slot="actions" class="w-full sm:w-auto">
      <form method="post" class="flex w-full flex-col gap-2 sm:max-w-md">
      <div class="flex flex-col gap-3 sm:flex-row">
        <Input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Enter your email" aria-label="Email" autocomplete="email" required class="flex-1" />
        <Button type="submit">{submitLabel}</Button>
      </div>
      <p class="text-sm opacity-85">We care about your data in our <Link href="#" color="neutral">privacy policy</Link>.</p>
    </form>
    </div>
  </SectionHeader>
  {categories && <Select aria-label="Category" class="mb-8 md:hidden">
    {categories.map((c) => <option value={c.value}>{c.label}</option>)}
  </Select>}
  {categories && <Tabs label="Categories" value={categories[0]?.value} variant="borderless" tabs={categories} class="mb-10 max-md:hidden" />}
  <Grid as="ul" cols={{ base: 1, xl: 2 }} gap={8} class="list-none p-0">
    {items.slice(0).map((post) => (
      <li><PostCard post={toCard(post)} locale={locale} orientation="horizontal" headingLevel={2} class="h-full" /></li>
    ))}
  </Grid>
  <Pagination currentPage={1} totalPages={10} getHref={(p) => `?page=${p}`} labels class="mt-12 justify-between border-t border-neutral pt-5" />
</Section>
```

## Add

```sh
npx @ava-ui/apogee add blog/simple-06
```

Every piece of copy is a prop, with the sample copy as its default. Pass yours, or `null` to hide a part; see [copy is props](https://apogee.avaui.dev/docs/blog-sections#copy-is-props).

This copies the block to `src/components/apogee/blocks/blog/` with everything it uses: Button, Grid, Input, Link, Pagination, PostCard, Section, SectionHeader, Select, Tabs. It opens a blog index page (its heading is the page’s `h1`). Swap the `posts` array for your content collection. Use **Copy code** above to paste it instead.

## Accessibility

-   Each post is one link: the title stretches over the card, and the author, category and tag links sit above it and stay clickable.
-   The decorative arrow and the images are hidden from screen readers (their alt is empty because the title already names the post).
-   The category row is a `<nav>` named “Categories”; the current category carries `aria-current="page"`.
-   The email field is named by `aria-label="Email"` (the placeholder is not a label); the form submits without JS.
-   Pagination is a `<nav>` of links; the current page carries `aria-current="page"`.

## Related

[

PostCardOne article in a blog list; image, a top line, title, summary and a footer, as plain, a card or with an overlay.

](https://apogee.avaui.dev/docs/post-card)[

Blog listPost cards in a grid, or one featured post above the grid.

](https://apogee.avaui.dev/docs/sections/blog-list)