News Macro
Description
The News Macro renders a list of news headlines with an optional thumbnail image on the left. Each headline is clickable to the full article.
Preferred Layouts
This macro is intended to be used in a 60/40, 75/25, 80/20 and full width layout.
Macro Properties
The macro has two options you can set
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Content Folder
The macro will render all content blocks in side this folder. This is a content folder of type “News Content Folder”. - Items Per Page
The number of news items that will load when a user clicks the "show more" button. This should be kept low (10 - 15) to provide users only slow networks with a good experience.
Adding Content
Content for the News macro is provided through a content folder of type “News Content Folder”. Each folder will contain 1 or more “News Content Block” which hold the content for each tile.
- Heading
The news heading.
- Description
A brief summary of the news article, this should not be very long.
- News Url
The Url to the full news story.
- Published Date
The date this news article was originally published or entered, the news articles are ordered using this date in a descending order (newest to oldest).
- Image
The logo that will appear on the page.
Tips
- Use a 60/40, 75/25, 80/20 or full width layout
- Avoid long summary text
- Avoid loading a lot of content in each request as this may take longer on slower networks.