# News Block Featured

News block featured shortcode is used to displayed featured news that are characteristic because of their image thumbnails as background to headline. It can be used as slider or just as static news posts.

**Featured Filter**

* **News Number** - Choose number of news posts that will be displayed
* **News Author** - Here you can choose authors from which the posts would be displayed
* **News Category** - Here you can choose categories from which the posts would be displayed
* **News Specific** - Here you can choose specific posts that will be displayed

![](https://4177201262-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-Lz6OF0kk5opjoam1cn_%2F-Lz6OGrOh7yzl2p6rpJk%2F-Lz6OR6UE9--7PJmIi6B%2F22.png?generation=1579598365578270\&alt=media)

**General Filter**

* **Use Slider** - Choose whether you wish to display news posts in the slider or as static posts

![](https://4177201262-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-Lz6OF0kk5opjoam1cn_%2F-Lz6OGrOh7yzl2p6rpJk%2F-Lz6OR6W8w6veq-sBKY1%2F23.png?generation=1579598366184431\&alt=media)

**How it is displayed on frontend?**

If you have chosen to use slider it would be displayed like this:![](https://4177201262-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-Lz6OF0kk5opjoam1cn_%2F-Lz6OGrOh7yzl2p6rpJk%2F-Lz6OR6YF1Fws3xoFh1k%2F24.png?generation=1579598366029087\&alt=media)

On the other hand if you have chosen to display it without the slider news would be shown like this:![](https://4177201262-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-Lz6OF0kk5opjoam1cn_%2F-Lz6OGrOh7yzl2p6rpJk%2F-Lz6OR6_2AllMIi5b6sg%2F25.png?generation=1579598366587451\&alt=media)
