{"id":38863,"date":"2025-09-17T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/?post_type=reference-article&#038;p=38863"},"modified":"2025-09-18T11:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:25:18","slug":"featured-people-block","status":"publish","type":"reference-article","link":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/reference-article\/featured-people-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured People Block"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Use Cases<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s 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 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/featured-people-close.png\" data-fullsize=\"1196x672\" data-zoom=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/featured-people-close-1024x575.png\" alt=\"A screenshot example of the Featured People block\" class=\"wp-image-38897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/featured-people-close-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/featured-people-close-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/featured-people-close-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/featured-people-close.png 1196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Featured People block is a great way to highlight people of interest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Features<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Like most other blocks, the Featured People block is first added using the block inserter. Then, you can populate the content of the block in each specific field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/adding-featured-people-block.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/adding-featured-people-block.gif\" alt=\"Example of the Featured People block being added to a post\" class=\"wp-image-38904\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">You can add the Featured People block to your post using the block inserter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Featured People block supports a headshot, name, title and link for each person. This makes it easy to provide all the pertinent details of an individual you wish to highlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/demo-featured-people-population.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/demo-featured-people-population.gif\" alt=\"Demo of populating a Featured People block\" class=\"wp-image-38907\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Featured People block is a quick and easy way to provide accreditation to an individual <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One final feature to highlight, is the featuring of multiple people. Instead of highlighting one person, maintainers can add profiles to feature multiple. This is great for highlighting teams, multiple writers on a post. or a collection of contributors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/demo-featured-people-adding-people.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/demo-featured-people-adding-people.gif\" alt=\"Demo of adding multiple people to the Featured People block\" class=\"wp-image-38913\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Featured People block is an excellent way to highlight an entire group<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Need help?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Have questions? Feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/go.ncsu.edu\/ucomm-dev-request\">go.ncsu.edu\/ucomm-dev-request<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"availability":[72,71,50,49],"content-type":[51],"class_list":["post-38863","reference-article","type-reference-article","status-publish","hentry","availability-nc-state-premium-add-on","availability-nc-state-pro-add-on","availability-nc-state-stories","availability-nc-state-theme","content-type-block"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reference-article\/38863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reference-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reference-article"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reference-article\/38863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38942,"href":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reference-article\/38863\/revisions\/38942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"availability","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/availability?post=38863"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=38863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}