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Core Publisher Release Notes, 10/25/11

Friday, October 28th, 2011

Hello Core Publishers!

This sprint we focused on clearing out a bunch of annoying defects and we worked on big projects around onboarding joint licensees and allowing for a more modular homepage.

From the top, DEFECTS tackled.

For everyone: 

  • Station branding is maintained when in maintenance mode.

Sites go into “maintenance mode” for a few minutes (users can see a few pages deep, however) when we deploy new features and bug fixes. This is why we do that deploy at 10 PM. A few weeks ago we noticed that stations were losing their header during these time periods, so we fixed that.

  • Links fixed in RSS feeds.

Sometimes the links in a station’s RSS feeds did not go to a site’s canonical URL. Fixed!

  • Stories no longer multiply ingested.
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Core Publisher Release Notes, 10/11/11

Thursday, October 20th, 2011
Clearly we have been busy, so busy I missed writing up these release notes last week. Forgive.
From the top:
Defects Fixed
  1. Listen timeline now works on “Look 2.”
  2. Fixed a script running on KETR.
  3. Fixed standard shortcuts for editors across all sites. Tightened up “blame log.”
Research Work Done
  1. Looked at potential mobile strategies.
  2. Defined (even more!) exactly what design and development work needs to be done to support a more modular homepage.
Wonkier Stuff
  1. OMNI WORK: We separated some databases within Omni to allow for cleaner pushes on stage.
  2. Moved Innovation Trail off WXXI and improved the script that does that.
  3. Documented what needs to be done to open source NPR API story retrieval.
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Core Publisher Release Notes, 9/13/11

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Hello Core Publishers,

From the top:

All RSS and Podcast page

To continue work we started a few weeks ago, we now have an “All RSS and Podcast” page that can be edited and ordered as you see fit.

The page will pull in your categories automatically. And you can choose to display or not display these categories and you can add additional podcasts (like your people and program podcasts), including podcasts created elsewhere (like This American Life).

The admin page will allow you to manage the order of the podcasts, the title, and the description.

The link to the “All Podcast and RSS Feeds” will show up in your podcast block automatically, but you must first enable at least one of the podcasts on that page.

When logged in, go to: Content > Edit Queues > Podcasts and RSS Feeds

 

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Core Publisher Release Notes, 8/30/11

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

Hello Fellow Core Publishers,

Another two weeks, another set of features and defects handled. During this sprint we had a major push on fixing audio. Good news revealed below!

But I will start with some smaller defects tackled.

Related to legacy defects, we cleaned up the following styling issues. 

  • Not enough line-height when links went long in “links” style block.
  • Scroll bar showed up when skybox title went to three lines.
  • Mini teaser description text was blue (should be black).
  • Disqus comment field aligned with bottom of right rail, (should align with the bottom of the post).

Related to the “Now Playing Block,” sometimes the streams never loaded. 

  • For whole host of reasons (a combination of cookies, browser behavior, a tiny AJAX flaw, Varnish, and a Drupal SEO module), sometimes a station’s “Now Playing” block did not load. We did a hotfix before the sprint ended to fix this issue–you should not see it again.
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Core Publisher Release Notes, 8/16/11

Monday, August 22nd, 2011
Hello there Core Publishers!
The themes of this sprint were search engine optimization enhancements and podcasting, to that end on Core Publisher you can now:
  1. Add meta descriptions to tags and categories. Below read HOW TO.
  2. Verify your site on Google, Bing, and Yahoo Webmaster Tools. Below read HOW TO.
  3. Have podcasts by program, category, and person. Below read MORE INFO and HOW TO.

In addition we:

  1. Fixed some playlist issues.
  2. Cleaned up some details associated with the new look.
  3. Back by popular demand: Added back the ability to view other author’s unpublished content.

Remember, if you have trouble with any of these new features, please contact client services at cphelp@ds.npr.org.

HOW TOs:

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Core Publisher Release Notes, 8/2/11

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Hello again Core Publishers,
A few really exciting features this sprint, so I’ll dive right in.

 

Topics Pages
First, we now have topic page functionality. This is just the beginning–we needed to create the ability to make such a page first. Now you are able: a. make topic pages as a content type, b. add an image, description, and title, c. identify more than one tag with a topic.

How to: Go to Add Content > Choose “topic” as your content type > Then add a title, a description (we suggest fewer than 300 characters), and an image (the CMS will resize your image just like a person page) > Add tags (no more than 5). Voila. Topic Page. You will get the URL (will be based on the title of your topic page) when you save the page and you can also find your topic pages to edit under “find content,” just like you would a post. Promote the page, however you wish: in a skyboxes or sticky strip, link to it from a story, link to it on social media.

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Core Publisher Release Notes, 7/19/11

Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Dear Core Publishers,
So pleased a few of you made the sprint review on Tuesday. I hope you found it helpful and I encourage you to ask questions in that meeting going forward. We are all ears.

Here are the release notes from Sprint N, which was deployed the evening of July 19th.

Known Defects Fixed

  • We are now filtering audio properly, that is, CP is rejecting full stereo and only accepting joint stereo and mono–the NPR API can only ingest joint stereo and mono. In addition, if users try to ingest audio that isn’t joint stereo or mono, they will get an error message explaining why their audio was rejected.
  • Programs in the “now playing block” are linking to their respective program pages.
  • On slideshows you can now add captions to more than 10 photos.
  • KUNC playlists are fixed–wahoo!
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Core Publisher Release Notes, 7/5/11

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

Hello Core Publishers,

As another two-week development cycle comes to an end, we wanted to let you know about new features available in Core Publisher, a few bugs we have fixed, and other new features we wouldn’t want you to miss.

Please note: Every other Tuesday, from 3 to 4 ET, we review features and bug fixes being released the following day. This is a great opportunity for you to see how to use new features and give direct feedback to the developers.

 

Known Defects Fixed

The Facebook share button on a river of news is now sharing the post associated with it. Also, other sundry items were fixed.

 

Select Features from this Deployment

1. Add Programs for Multiple Guides

How to: If you have multiple guides, you can now see all of the programs available for each guide under Add Content > Programs > Find program from list below.

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