How to add another block of featured content?

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  aspireapssdc · Member · Mar 22, 2017 at 8:26 am

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  Hey,

  It is possible to add another set of the featured content blocks,Now it’s only supporting for 3, is there any possibility for displaying another 3 blocks below that? any information regarding this is highly appreciated.

  The blog I need help with is aspire764.wordpress.com.

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  dave2swords · Member · Mar 22, 2017 at 8:43 am

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  Good morning!
  It may be possible. You are using the Ixion theme. If you look at the theme page at: https://wordpress.com/themes/ixion about 60% of the way down it says

  Featured Content

  Featured Content is shown on the front page below the Site Tagline area. To add a post or page to Featured Content, give it the tag “featured,” or another tag of your choosing set from Customize → Featured Content.

  Give that a try and see what happens, let us know how it works for you.

  best,
  dave

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  aspireapssdc · Member · Mar 22, 2017 at 9:16 am

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  I’m bit confused.. i’m trying but another set of posts where not displaying at the bottom.

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  aspireapssdc · Member · Mar 22, 2017 at 9:17 am

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  Can we create another “featured Content” below the present one ?

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  dave2swords · Member · Mar 22, 2017 at 9:24 am

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  Did you try to tag additional posts as :Featured Content:?

  dave

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  aspireapssdc · Member · Mar 22, 2017 at 9:26 am

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  yes, I did but it’s only 3 posts in the featured content area

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  dave2swords · Member · Mar 22, 2017 at 10:05 am

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  I am sorry that we are unable to add more than 3 featured content to this theme as it is now.
  It may be possible with some custom CSS: https://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/

  Be advised that

  Note: you must have either WordPress.com Premium or WordPress.com Business active on your site to be able to add custom CSS to your site

  If you have one of these two plans you will be able to add CSS to the theme.

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization would be the forum to ask for help with the code, if you do not have someone there at the school who can do this.

  dave

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  aspireapssdc · Member · Mar 22, 2017 at 10:14 am

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  How to make my site “WordPress.com Business active” ?

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  dave2swords · Member · Mar 22, 2017 at 10:26 am

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  In order to do that, you need to go to the :Manage Purchases” on your site:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/manage-purchases/

  dave

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  staff-loquaciousloon · Staff · Mar 22, 2017 at 3:32 pm

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  Hi @aspireapssdc and @dave2swords!

  I’m afraid this isn’t something that CSS will be able to accomplish. CSS is great for moving, changing, and even hiding the things the theme already includes. It can add colors and borders and even some very basic text.

  Pulling posts or pages from your site’s database though isn’t something that CSS can do – that needs to be built into the theme directly.

  There aren’t any themes that have more than one Featured Content section, but there are some, like Gazette or Canard that showcase more than three items. Perhaps something like that would work? :)