# Settings
The Posts module empowers you to disseminate updates to the entire organization or target specific teams, facilitating the sharing of company news, employee spotlights, sales victories, and success stories.
Network administrators have the capability to modify the system's default label and other domain-wide settings within the Posts module.
**UI Options:** This option allows you to customize the appearance of post description cards within the posts module. Choose between fixed height post cards vs content based variable height post cards. You also have the option to between black vs white background for the card area that displays the post title, author, reactions & views.
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#### Featured Image on the Newsfeed
This setting controls the visual appearance of a post when it shows up on a newsfeed. Choose between:
* **Thumbnail**, which retains the current view of the post’s featured image, title, and summary
* **Responsive**, which introduces a larger, responsive layout with the featured image displayed up to **765 x 475px** in size.
The responsive option ensures the featured image adjusts to the width of the page, appearing prominently with post titles and summaries, while smaller images are centered within the designated space.
On the user portal side, if **Thumbnail** is chosen, posts will showcase a post using the layout with smaller featured images, titles, and summaries.
If **Responsive** is selected, the feed displays larger images or videos in a responsive layout, ensuring maximum visibility on both fixed-width and full-width sites.
For mobile and tablet users, the view adapts to device dimensions while following the admin-defined configuration.
Posts **without** a featured image will omit the image area. All elements, including titles and summaries, will appear in a vertical order for improved readability. **Responsive** will retain all markdown syntax from the post within this preview.
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**Who Can Boost Posts:** You can select the users with access to boost a post from Post Creator and All Admins All Admins Network and Intranet Admins only
**Who Can Mark Posts:** Select which users can mark the post as Announcement, Must Read, Highlight to Top, and Set Custom Label
**Enable posts for targeted audience and control who can create them:** Enable this option to allow domain admins, intranet admins, and designated users to share posts with a targeted dynamic audience or a specific user list.
**Enable Ticker Tape And Control Who Can Create And Manage Them:** Allow domain admins, intranet admins, and designated users to configure ticker tape posts for dynamic or specific audiences. The ticker tape messages is visible on web only.
From the ticker tape settings, admins can set permissions for who can configure ticker tape, choose the tape background color, and configure the display locations for the tape. For more information on Ticker Tape, click [here](https://guides.mangoapps.com/user-guide/posts/post-planning-calendar/ticker-tape).
**Automatically Set Featured Image From Post Content:** Enable this option to automatically assign a featured image if one has not been manually set. This ensures every post has a visual thumbnail for the News Feed without requiring extra steps from the author.
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#### How It Works
* **Auto-Selection Logic**: At the time of publishing or scheduling, the system scans the post from top to bottom and left to right. It automatically selects the first available image from an Image block, Image Text block, or Video thumbnail and applies it as a center-aligned featured image.
* **Smart Overrides**: This feature only triggers if the featured image field is **empty**. If a user has manually uploaded, generated, or fetched an image, the selection is always preserved.
* **Exclusions**: To ensure high-quality thumbnails, images from **cover blocks or advanced sections (like course blocks)** are never auto-selected.
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**Default Post Reviewer:** Designate users that will appear pre-filled when the post author uses the **Send for Review Workflow**. The post author can still change the reviewer list for each post as per their requirement.
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### **Advanced Options**
**Enable highlighting of posts**
Activate this feature to incorporate a dedicated highlight section at the top of chosen post areas such as Home, Newsfeed, and/or Posts page within the Company module. This functionality also allows for customization of the Highlight section's title. Please note that providing a title is mandatory.
To learn more about Highlights in the User Portal, click [here](https://guides.mangoapps.com/user-guide/posts/compose-a-post#highlight-this-post).
**Show View Count / acknowledge count on post:** By enabling this setting, the view count will be visible to all users who can access the post when turned on. For posts that require acknowledgment, the count of users who have acknowledged the post will also be displayed to those who can view the post.
When enabled, an additional option will appear. This option allows you to show a public list of users who have viewed/acknowledged the post.
**Allow comments on company posts:** Mark the checkbox to allow users to comments on company posts by default. Post author can disallow comments on their specific post. Un-mark to disallow comments on all company posts - post author **CANNOT** override this setting.
**Allow comments on team posts or direct posts sent to users:** Enable this setting to allow comments by default on team posts and direct posts sent to users. Post authors can still choose to disable comments on individual posts.
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Admins can choose to keep comments always enabled or automatically disable new comments and replies after a specified period of 1 to 90 days from the post’s publish date. Any existing comments and replies remain visible after commenting is closed. When a post author enables comments on their post, they can see the admin-configured auto-close duration, if one is set, making it clear whether comments will close automatically after a defined time or remain open indefinitely. By default, comments and replies on posts remain open indefinitely when enabled by the post author.
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If this setting is **disabled**, comments will be blocked on all team and direct posts, and authors will not have the option to enable them. Existing comments will remain visible, but no new comments can be added.
**Show posts from all public teams:** Mark the checkbox to show posts from public teams on the Posts page even if the user is not a member of them on the User Portal. Un-mark to show posts from a user's teams only.
**Show a widget which consolidates all podcasts:** Mark the checkbox to show a widget on the Posts page that aggregates **all voice-enabled posts** in a list on the User Portal.
**Allow posts to be subscribed on external apps:** Mark the checkbox to allow users to add voice-enabled posts on their Apple Podcast app. If disabled, hides the **Subscribe** button for all users on the *Posts* page on the User Portal.
**Allow sending SMS for Boost Post and Post Alert:** Enable this setting to allow post alerts and boost of posts to be sent out over SMS.
**Auto-expire must-read/announcement posts after \_ Days**: Check this setting to set the default expiration for must-read and announcement marked posts. On auto-expiry, the must read/announcement tag will be removed from the post. The post will still remain available as a regular post.
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The translate option of your domain in the Admin Portal (**Admin Portal > Domain > Translate**) **MUST** be deactivated to edit the module label.
Activating and Deactivating the translate option of your domain in the Admin Portal (**Admin Portal > Domain > Translate**) resets the custom label text.
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