Announcements
The announcements block allows you to add your own custom announcements to your site. It also allows you to set what time announcements are visible and removed to your website visitors.
Block Settings
Heading Level: Select the heading number that follows the structure of your page content. Use proper nesting and do not skip levels. The default level is H2.
Block Title: The block title will add a title to the top of the announcements block, at the level you choose above. You can name this whatever you would like.
Announcements: Not all announcements will be added to your block automatically. If you want to include an announcement in your block, click the “Add an announcement” button and choose the announcement from the drop-down menu. A block can hold up to five announcements.
See All and the Announcements Archive
When the block has at least one announcement showing, it displays a See All button linking to the announcements archive at /upcoming-announcements/. The button is hidden when the block has nothing to show.
That archive lists every announcement on your site that is currently within its publish and removal dates, not only the ones you selected in this block. An announcement you never added to a block is still reachable there once its publish date arrives.
Adding an Announcement
Before an announcement can be added to the block, it must first be added as a custom post type on the back-end of the website. You can find the Announcements custom post type on the left sidebar of the back-end of your site.
Simply click on “Announcements” and then “Add New Announcement“
This will take you to the Edit Announcement page.
Title: The title of the announcement.
Date to publish to website: The date that the announcement will appear if added to the announcements block.
Date to remove from website: The date that the announcement will be removed from the front-end of the website if it added to the announcements block.
Description: Any additional information about your event that you want to appear on the details page of the announcement. Note: This information will not appear in the announcement block!
Widget Link Type: Select what type of destination the item should go to from the widget. Choose Detail Page to send visitors to the announcement’s own page, Internal Page to send them to another page on your site, or External Page to send them to another website.
Internal Page Selection: Appears when Widget Link Type is set to Internal Page. Choose the page on your site the announcement should link to.
External Page Selection: Appears when Widget Link Type is set to External Page. Enter the full URL the announcement should link to.
Once everything has been added, click “Update” to save your announcement and add it to your block.