Improve News Item "View"

[skleinfeldt]

I don't know what the right word is, but by "view" I mean the standard layout of a News Item based on its metadata. (Like what's called a view in Classic.)

Plone.org has hundreds of News Items, dating to 2002.

The early ones have title, description, body text, pub date, tags:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030208001442/http://plone.org/Members/runyaga/news/RC2_released
https://plone.org/news-and-events/news/2003/RC2_released

The Plone 5 era ones added lead images:
https://web.archive.org/web/20211216145932/https://plone.org/news
https://web.archive.org/web/20211216150001/https://plone.org/news/2021/questions-for-the-december-steering-circle
https://plone.org/news-and-events/news/2021/questions-for-the-december-steering-circle

The newer Plone 6 ones put the lead image, title, description in a Blocco slider block:
https://plone.org/news-and-events/news/2024/plone-year-2024-is-full-of-events
(This presentation is not extended backwards to all news items with lead images - it probably wouldn't work that well anyway on images that are not photos, like the 2021 Steering Circle example.)

None of these news item views through the ages has showed the pub date on the news item, which seems like a major oversight. Do a search, read a news item, and you have no idea when it was published unless you look at the breadcrumbs or URL. (The Plone 5 listing view showed the date, but the volto listing block does not - see #171.)

The Plone 5 listing and news item views showed the tags - the Marketing Team made a point of implementing this because we were consistently tagging all news items. (We created collections for each tag which could be used to highlight certain types of things - for example the list of podcasts.) This feature of showing the tags was lost in the migration to Volto.

We need a more consistent way of displaying all these disparate news items that includes the pub date and the tags, that could be applied retroactively to all news items. This would ideally gracefully handle news items with no lead images as in the early days, with smallish lead images as in the Plone 5 days, and with big high res lead images as in modern times.

Is this possible? If it is I'll come up with a mockup.