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Displays one headline, one featured item (article or resource), and content cards.

  • Content cards should be added in groups of 3.
  • Content cards can be either local, or external. 
  • Local cards: Type the name of the article or resource, and links, images, text, etc will all automatically populate.
  • External cards: You can manually provide links, images, text, etc. You can also use this for local content, if you wish to manually specify new images/etc. Image size for external cards is recommended to be 790x440.
  • Optional read more link to the news page, or resources page.
  • Optionally, the page the "read more" links to can be pre-filtered by either issues, programs, or both. If nothing is selected for Optional Issue or Optional Program, the button will link to the above chosen page with no filters.

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Displays one headline and content cards.

  • Content cards should be added in groups of 3.
  • Content cards can be either local, or external. 
  • Local cards: Type the name of the article or resource, and links, images, text, etc will all automatically populate.
  • External cards: You can manually provide links, images, text, etc. You can also use this for local content, if you wish to manually specify new images/etc. Image size for external cards is recommended to be 790x440.
  • Optional read more link to the news page, or resources page.
  • Optionally, the page the "read more" links to can be pre-filtered by either issues, programs, or both. If nothing is selected for Optional Issue or Optional Program, the button will link to the above chosen page with no filters.

 

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