OK, so a little update … we are getting closer to having a grid layout option soon. As for the slider, because the site doesn’t load jQuery I think it’s unlikely that we will implement this feature for a few reasons …
1) We don’t want to make the site load jQuery
2) We don’t want to choose a slider and add it into this plugin as we don’t want to force third party code on this project
3) Even if we did want to include a third party slider in this plugin, most that we have seen use jQuery so this would go back to point (1)
Having said all this, if you know of a third party slider plugin that doesn’t require jQuery and works on Twenty Nineteen, let us know and we’ll investigate utilising it.
In the meantime, we’ll let you know when we have implemented the grid view for featured content.
Oliver