Add a news feed
Use the news page template as the central place on your website to publish news items. You can then embed a feed of headlines in any other page – for example, your home page. When you publish a news item, the news feed updates automatically.
You can also embed a feed of news items tagged with a keyword – say, ‘Publications’ or ‘Conferences’. Some departments do this on their research landing pages.
Here's an example news feed in the second row of the Faculty of Social Sciences' home page:
- Go to the page where you want to add the news feed.
- Go to Edit > Edit centre content or Edit right content.
- Place your cursor in the visual editor where you want to add the feed.
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In the toolbar, go to Insert a > News feed. The News feed window appears:
- In the Page path box, select the picker button and browse to the location of the news page you want to take a feed from. Alternatively, enter the relative link to the news page.
- Specify the Number of items to show.
- Choose whether headlines in your feed link to the full news item or display as static text. For the former, select Headlines are clickable links.
- Choose whether or not to Show publication dates above each headline.
- Choose whether or not to Show thumbnail images alongside each headline.
- Optionally, restrict the number of characters in the headline or story by entering a number in the Show only first n characters boxes.
- Under the Display options, choose how you want the headlines to appear.
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Optionally, limit the news feed to show items with particular tags. To do so, in the Filter by tag box, enter the tags separated by commas. For example:
Postgraduate,Publications,Research seminars
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When you have finished specifying the options, select Insert. You should see text similar to the following in the visual editor:
[sched-news num=3 showthumbnails=true tags='Postgraduate,Publications,Research seminars']/fac/department/news[/sched-news]The attributes of the
[sched-news]tag in the example above specify:- show the most recent three news items
- show thumbnail images alongside each headline
- only show news items with any of the tags ‘Postgraduate’, ‘Publications’ or ‘Research seminars’
- When you have finished editing your page, select Publish. You should see the news items in a list. When you publish a news item to your main news page in the future, the feed updates automatically.