[Theme Horse Support Team]

Hi Matt,

Apologies for the late reply.

* Can you please clarify which ‘Trending Stories’ section you are talking about? There is no Trending Posts section which automatically shows the most viewed posts.

* You can change the footer featured posts to latest posts as well as any category and any post number you like just go to Customizer > Footer Featured Posts there you can set the posts type you like to set.

Thank you!