News Listing Page

To request the News feature be activated on a unit website, fill out and submit this form. 

The digital experience program manager will generate a ticket, and a member of the University Communications and Marketing platforms group will activate the feature on the website. 

No, the News Listing Page offers both grid and listing views to provide website visitors with an optimal user experience. 

Content authors can adjust the number of stories listed on a page using pagination controls in the News Listing presentation settings. 

Yes and no.

Units can customize which filters are available on the News Listing Page from the list of available filters. Additional filters cannot be added because creating or modifying categories requires custom development. If a unit has a need for a new filter category, contact University Communications and Marketing to discuss your use case. There may be unit expense related to the custom development of additional category filters. University Communications and Marketing will discuss options with the unit prior to moving forward with any work that may lead to expenses. 

Units can customize the options listed under Story Topics, Story Types and Backend Tags. Story Topics and Story Types can be used as filters, while Backend Tags can inform search results but cannot be used as filters. University Communications and Marketing has provided a recommended set of Story Topics and Story Types to help units get started. See “News Taxonomy” for instructions and additional information. 

The filters are contextual and additive. Options will only appear in the drop-downs if there is story content tagged that matches the applied filters. If multiple filters are in use, the available options in the second (or third, etc.) filters will automatically update to contain only what is available in content on the site that already meets the other applied active filters. 

Title (single-line text)

• Required field.
• This is the page title displayed as the H1 tag and appears on the page as the story headline. 
• It must be unique and should be 50-70 characters for best search engine optimization practices. 

Browser Title (single-line text)

• Optional field.
• This title appears on the browser’s tab or top bar. 
• If no text is placed here, the browser tab will show the Page Title.

Meta Description (single-line text)

• Add a description of the page to this field. 
• This assists with search engine optimization and provides users a quick summary of what they can expect to find on the page. See “Search Engine Optimization” for additional information.

Meta Keywords (single-line text)

• Add keywords to this field to guide search engines on what this page content is about. See “Search Engine Optimization” for additional information. 

No Index (checkbox)

• Check this box if search engines should not index the page.

No Follow (checkbox)

• Check this box if search engines should not follow links to the page.
  Canonical (single-line text)
• If the same content appears on multiple pages or websites, include the full URL of the web page that search engines should treat as canon (i.e., most important). 

Open Graph Title (single-line text)

• This field controls the headline that appears when the News Listing Page is shared via social media, web search, texting, etc. 

Open Graph Type (droplist)

• This setting defaults to website for News Listing Pages.

Open Graph Image (image selection)

• This field controls the thumbnail image that accompanies the News Listing Page when it is shared via social media, web search, texting, etc.

Open Graph URL (single-line text)

• This field controls the open graph tag related to the page being shared, indicating the canonical URL of the webpage to define how a shared link is displayed. 

Hide Breadcrumb on Page (checkbox)

• Checking this box will remove the breadcrumb link trail from the top of the Story Page.

Check to hide in navigation filters (checkboxes)

• Breadcrumb Navigation — Checking this box will hide the page from inclusion in breadcrumb navigation components, if present on a page.
• Sidebar Navigation — Checking this box will hide the page from inclusion in sidebar navigation components, if present on a page.
• Sitemap Navigation — Checking this box will hide the page from inclusion in the sitemap.

To request the News feature be activated on a unit website, fill out and submit this form. 

The digital experience program manager will generate a ticket, and a member of the University Communications and Marketing platforms group will activate the feature on the website. 

By default, activating the News feature adds a page titled “News and Events” to the top level of the site’s Content Tree. Subpages titled “News” and “Events” are added under this page. The “News” and “Events” pages are the automatically generated listing pages that will populate with the news and events items, respectively. 

Users can rename the “News,” “Events,” and “News and Events” pages in the same way that other pages are renamed. 

See “Naming a Page” for instructions. 

By default, activating the News feature adds a page titled “News and Events” to the top level of the site’s Content Tree. Subpages titled “News” and “Events” are added under this page. The “News” and “Events” pages are the automatically generated listing pages that will populate with the news and events items, respectively. 

Users can move the “News,” “Events,” and “News and Events” pages in the same way that other pages are moved within the Content Tree. 

Users can add select additional content components to the News Listing Page in Page Builder. See “Add and Delete Components” for additional information. 

Filters included on the News Listing Page are controlled using widget settings in Content Editor. 

To change included filters:

1. Open Content Editor.
2. Locate the News Listing Page. The default location for this page is found by expanding the MSU node, website name, Home node, News and Events node, and click to select the News page.
3. On the navigation ribbon, click the Presentation tab.
4. Click Details to open the Layout Details window.
5. Click the Final Layout tab within the Layout Details window.
6. Click the News List link under MSU Headless Layout Controls.
7. In the Facets field, list the desired filter facets. Separate facets by a comma. Available facets include:
   1. start_date
   2. categories
   3. college_departments
   4. type (refers to Story Type under Global Taxonomies)
   5. end_date
   6. unit_types (refers to Story Types under Unit Taxonomies)
   7. unit_topics
8. Click OK.
9. Click Save.

The number of stories included on the News Listing Page is controlled using widget settings in Content Editor. 

To change included filters:

1. Open Content Editor.
2. Locate the News Listing Page. The default location for this page is found by expanding the MSU node, website name, Home node, News and Events node, and click to select the News page. 
3. On the navigation ribbon, click the Presentation tab.
4. Click Details to open the Layout Details window.
5. Click the Final Layout tab within the Layout Details window.
6. Click the News List link under MSU Headless Layout Controls.
7. Enter a number in the Items Per Page field. This number represents the number of stories listed on each page in the News Listing. 
8. Click OK.
9. Click Save.

Publish the News Listing Page like any other page in Sitecore. See “Publish a Page” for more information.