How to highlight a "featured" item on the homepage

Why feature content?

Key points • Featured items draw attention to an offer or room • A simple CMS field is all that's needed to control the display on the homepage • The featured item automatically updates when it changes

Highlighting a featured item on the homepage is an excellent way to showcase a premium room, a seasonal offer, or important news for your hotel. Thanks to dynamic CMS fields, you can manage this highlighting without having to modify the homepage structure every time.

To begin, open your CMS collection, for example, Rooms, Offers, or News. Verify that the collection has a field dedicated to featured status, usually a checkbox or a boolean field labeled “Featured,” “Highlight,” or something similar. If this field doesn't already exist, create it so your team can enable featured status on the items of their choice.

Once the field is configured, go to the homepage and locate the section where the featured item appears. This section must be built using a Collection List connected to the same CMS collection. Modify the settings of this list to filter only the items for which the "Featured" field is enabled.

💡 Tip: Limit the number of items displayed to 1 in the Collection List to avoid displaying multiple items at the same time, especially if several items are checked by mistake.

Next, customize the layout of this featured item on the homepage. You can display the main photo, the title, a short description, or a button linking to the corresponding CMS page. The content will automatically update as soon as another item from the collection is marked as "featured".

Test the preview display to ensure the item appears correctly. If no content is displayed, verify that the "Featured" field is enabled for at least one item and that the filter applied to the Collection List is using the correct value.

For added flexibility, some hotel teams prefer to add a "Priority" field or an importance level to choose which item should appear first when there are multiple possible highlights. This approach works with dynamic sorting based on a numeric field.

Conclusion

Highlighting a featured item on your homepage is simple and fully automated thanks to the CMS's dynamic fields. By activating a "Featured" field and filtering your Collection List, you can easily control which content is highlighted.