{"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":"2026-07-27T16:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:50:16","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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Featured People block provides an effective way to spotlight individuals. The block allows creators to display a person&#8217;s headshot, name and title, along with a link to an external resource. While it\u2019s often used to highlight a single person, the block also supports the display of multiple profiles so creators can showcase an entire group of people at once.<\/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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As with most other blocks, add the Featured People block by using the block inserter. Then 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\">Add the Featured People block to a post by using the block inserter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 the creator wishes 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 tell readers more about an important person.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This block also allows creators to feature multiple people together. 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 at once.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\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":11,"href":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reference-article\/38863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39929,"href":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reference-article\/38863\/revisions\/39929"}],"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}]}}