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NC State Stories

Sep 17, 2025

Featured People Block

Use Cases The Featured People block is a great way to spotlight individuals. You can display a headshot, name, title, and even link to an external resource. While it’s often used to highlight a single person, the block also supports multiple profiles. This makes the block useful for showcasing an entire team, or group of…

Sep 17, 2025

Post Summary Block

Use Cases The Post Summary block gives readers a summary of a post’s contents. This makes the post easier to skim and understand at a glance. By offering context beyond the headline, it provides clarity which can spark greater interest from readers. This in turn can help improve reader retention. Features Unlike other blocks, the…

Feb 20, 2024

Starter Content

Certain templates come with a suggested layout of blocks that can be easily populated and edited for your specific needs. Available on certain templates, the starter content system includes a suggested selection of blocks for a particular template type. This can be especially useful as a starting point for creating a new page.  Blocks added…

Feb 20, 2024

Localist Calendar Widgets

Keeping one’s audience up-to-date about campus events on the web can be a challenge. And building web content that displays this information in a clear and concise manner can be a big time sink. The Localist Calendar Widget builder aims to address both of these issues. Posting relevant campus event information in a thoughtful manner…

Jan 30, 2024

Patterns

With patterns, you can save sets of blocks to use later on any page or post on your site. This can mitigate the repetition of adding the same groups of blocks to new pages. Creating a Pattern In most cases patterns consist of a group of blocks, but patterns can also be a single block.…

Mar 22, 2021

Gravity Forms

Introduction Gravity Forms is a powerful tool used to create professional looking forms embedded directly into a WordPress page or post. The easy to use form building platform helps to save time while also allowing users to preview their forms before taking them live on their site. Through its configuration settings there is a great…

Mar 18, 2021

Alt Text

Introduction: What is Alt Text? Alternative text (alt text) provides a written description of content for visually impaired users who may use a screen reader. Adding alt text for images is a foundational principle of web accessibility. It can be challenging to implement alt text correctly and in a way that most benefits end users.…

Sep 2, 2020

Sandwich Narrative Block

While the main post content sets the stage and gives full details on a particular topic, the Sandwich Narrative block allows users to present a secondary, short-but-relevant story embedded directly within the original narrative that can add additional context, emphasize a point, or simply add more interest to the current story. Longer content may be…

May 26, 2020

Aside Widget Block

A part of the Immersive Template, the “Aside Widget” is a sleek alternative to standard “Fact” and “Pullquote” blocks. Instead of traditional center alignment, the “Aside Widget” affords site managers the option to left or right align specific, important content in order to give the body of work a feature feel while not distracting away…

May 19, 2020

Image Format and Size

Formats The format of an image refers to the filetype. The most common filetypes are: .jpeg/.jpg, .png, and .gif. The filetype, size, and resolution are all contributing factors to the overall quality of an image. WordPress supplies a good article on Image Size and Quality detailing each facet and how it contributes to image display.…

May 18, 2020

Highlight Block

One of the most flexible blocks within NC State Stories, the Highlight block allows an author to link out to related stories, supplemental information and resources, or other online resources such as an event RSVP. Almost all fields within the block are optional other than a heading and URL. Additional fields include a subtitle area…