News Section / Blog

Create news posts for your website and keep your visitors up to date.

Activate the News Feature

First activate News Feature in Lay Options. You can also change the feature name and slug, for example to use it as a blog.

Create News Posts

Now go to "News" and create news posts.

Fill out the "excerpt" text field. This will be the preview text for your news.

The excerpt is shown as preview text in your news overview.

Add a News Overview

Now let's add a news overview. Don't add this in a news post, add it to a page where you'd like an overview of your news like your frontpage for example.

On that page, in your Gridder click "+More" → "+News Element".

Set the News Element options and add the overview to your page.

Footers for News

If you'd like your news posts to have a footer, go to Lay Options → Footers. In News Footer you can use one footer for all news posts or add a footer selector to each News editor.

Use News Footer to choose how footers behave for news posts.

Navigation Between News

In your News Footer or somewhere in your news, create a "Next News" link or button. First, create a text element, then select the text and click the arrow right button:

Use the arrow right button to create a "Next News" link. The arrow left button next to it creates a "Previous News" link.

Use titles of next/prev news

Any text inside this "Next News Link" can contain the text: $nextprojecttitle$. This will be replaced with the next news title.

Any text inside the "Previous News Link" can contain the text: $previousprojecttitle$. This will be replaced with the previous news title.