diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index b274dd77f867..d82d0617b18e 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ collections:
     output: true
     permalink: /projects/:path/
 
-news:
+announcements:
   enabled: true
   scrollable: true # adds a vertical scroll bar if there are more than 3 news items
   limit: 5 # leave blank to include all the news in the `_news` folder
diff --git a/_includes/news.html b/_includes/news.html
index c7fefdcfb111..2146d885e5b4 100644
--- a/_includes/news.html
+++ b/_includes/news.html
@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
-
           <div class="news">
             {% if site.news != blank -%}
             {%- assign news_size = site.news | size -%}
-            <div class="table-responsive" {% if site.news.scrollable and news_size > 3 %}style="max-height: 60vw"{% endif %}>
-              <script>console.log({{news_size}});</script>
+            <div class="table-responsive" {% if include.limit and site.announcements.scrollable and news_size > 3 %}style="max-height: 60vw"{% endif %}>
               <table class="table table-sm table-borderless">
               {%- assign news = site.news | reverse -%}
-              {% if site.news.limit %}
-              {% assign news_limit = site.news.limit %}
+              {% if include.limit and site.announcements.limit %}
+              {% assign news_limit = site.announcements.limit %}
               {% else %}
               {% assign news_limit = news_size %}
               {% endif %}
@@ -28,4 +26,4 @@
           {%- else -%}
             <p>No news so far...</p>
           {%- endif %}
-          </div>
+          </div>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_layouts/about.html b/_layouts/about.html
index 8954a2c57930..072ed918fbff 100644
--- a/_layouts/about.html
+++ b/_layouts/about.html
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ <h1 class="post-title">
           </div>
 
           <!-- News -->
-          {% if page.news -%}
+          {% if page.news and site.announcements.enabled -%}
             <h2><a href="{{ '/news/' | relative_url }}" style="color: inherit;">news</a></h2>
-            {%- include news.html %}
+            {%- include news.html limit=true %}
           {%- endif %}
 
           <!-- Latest posts -->