I wanted to customize the SharePoint News out-of-the-box web part so I re-created it with some of the features I wanted. The web part gets the SharePoint News Posts from a SharePoint site or multiple SharePoint sites and displays them in one of two styles. The styling of my web part is based off of the SharePoint News web part ( width, shadow, etc. )

The main features I wanted to add were the comment count, number of likes, and the pagination ability of the web part.

The web part includes:

• Pagination ( Back/Next ) and Page number
• Select Multiple Sites ( Defaults to the current site )
• Two styling options, Stack or Single
• News Title as link ( Click to go to post )
• News Thumbnail Image
• Preview of Description
• Author ( Can toggle visibility in Property Pane )
• Created Date
• Likes with Office UI Fabric Icons
• Comments with Office UI Fabric Icons ( Also retrieves nested comments )

You can find the web part here. I will be presenting this web part on the upcoming Nov. 4th SharePoint PnP Community Call- register now!