Latest News Feed on Home page should contain items published by date order irrespective of category
I have discovered that on our website, 21 items can feed through to the Home page Latest News section. 8 spaces are allowed for actual Latest News articles, 5 for Newsletters and 8 for Facebook posts. This means that when news article number 9 is published, it pushes the earliest article off but leaves older newsletters or FB posts in situ. This is very restrictive and in my opinion, makes little sense.
Surely the heading 'Latest News' means just that, irrespective of the format we publish it in?
Often, articles are published that add more detail to a FB post that has gone out a few days before. Once that article reaches no 9, it disappears off the feed, though the FB page with the initial details may well hang about much, much longer. The same with newsletters, not every school publishes them weekly. They could remain on the feed for months, so hardly latest news.
I suggest that the number of items pushed through to the Home page remains the same but they should be there by date, irrespective of whether its an article, newsletter or FB post. Having a set category number is unnecessary. New one published in, oldest one out. The option to click for more news articles, newsletters and FB posts remain to enable the visitor to the site to find what they need of that particular category.
kim.shales@belmont.lincs.sch.uk
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