Use Cases

The Featured Content block is a useful tool for pointing users toward important or timely pages and stories; keeping users on their site for longer; and/or breaking up long chunks of text, all of which can create repeat visitors. See an example of a Featured Content block below:

Features

To add a Featured Content block to a page, click the “Add a block” button and choose “Featured Content” from the block list. Alternatively, the block can be found by using the “Search for a block” function. For more information on blocks and adding them to a WordPress site, see our documentation on blocks.

Once added, the Featured Content block allows for a custom heading above the content cards. Within each individual content card, site maintainers can add content in one of two ways:

• Search for the desired post within the maintainer’s site by using the URL input area to auto-fill the fields.
• Provide a unique link, image, headline, teaser text and call to action within each field.

Multiple rows of content cards may be added within the same Featured Content block. Once the current row of cards is full, the button to add a new card will move to the next row, where the new set of cards will begin.

Content cards within the same Featured Content block can be shifted or reorganized by using the block-moving mechanisms on found on each individual card.

Additional customization is available through the block settings in the right-hand menu. Creators can opt for a two-column layout and can choose to hide the featured images and calls to action within each content card.