May 4, 2020 — Bios, Carousel, and Sticky Newsletter Callout
Added option to show simple contributor bios to add context to articles and people profiles.
Added a sticky newsletter call-out to helps folks find out where to subscribe (not necessary on homepage since it has the follow bar near the top of the page [and in the footer]).
ReworkedMakers and Contributors directories to load much much faster and fit more people on the screen at once.
Added a simple carousel/slider display for article images.
Updated Craft CMS to 3.4.17 and Next.js to 9.3.
April 7, 2020 — Styled Text
Added new styled text functionality to help authors highlight, censor, and otherwise emphasize text in their articles. Hopefully it's not too distracting.
Added a way for editors to quickly create colored backgrounds from within the CMS.
February 28, 2020 — Apple News template, admin improvements
Added custom Apple News template (awaiting review from Apple).
Reworked fallback favicons to match new primary color.
Reworked "Latest" section on homepage to make current tab more apparent.
Added auto-embed component to make embedding social media and videos easier.
February 21, 2020 — RSS Adjustments, Article Hero Refinement
Reworked Article Full Width Image Heroes to show text above content on entry views. This gets the text content to the reader sooner resulting in a better reading experience.
Reworked The RSS feed now shows a truncated version articles in hopes that folks will visit the website for the fully designed experience.
Reworked The RSS feed to credit the writer more accurately.
February 14, 2020 — Follow Bar Tweaks, Newsletter Page, Update Craft to 3.4
Added support for rich text in FollowBar / Newsletter settings.
Reworked "Latest" section to avoid duplicate items (the featured item now gets included from the "Latest" column.
Updated Craft to 3.4 as well as any plugins that needed updated.
February 7, 2020 — Headlines Collection Rework
Reworked "Headlines" collection display to allow for background image. Also redesigned the image functionality for more consistent readability.
February 5-6, 2020 — Book External Articles Improvement
Fixed Instagram and Twitter embed issues.
Misc. bug fixes.
February 1, 2020 — Book External Articles Improvement
Added ability to add multiple lists of external articles on the Book page — simply separate articles with a "Heading" block.
Update to Next.js 9.2
January 31, 2020 — Color Updates, Linked Partner, Tracking Outbound Links
Reworked various colors to use the new purple/blue color rather than the old red/orange color.
Fixed issue with linear display of book External Articles when there are > 3 items.
Added ability to link article Partner logo and image.
Added tracking for outbound links (not in the code-base, entirely in GTM)
January 24, 2020 — Logo Updates, Clean Up + Small Additions
Added a temporary*, perhaps Side by Side component for the homepage to use for the Book callout. *I have some ideas for reworking CTAs that could handle this use-case as well.
Updated various logo files.
Reworked navigation by adding "Search" to header and "Makers" to footer.
Fixed two bugs with Search pagination — the button was un-styled, and the "load more" button wasn't working.
January 22, 2020 — Navigation Tweaks + New "Latest" Component
Added a new "Latest" component that contains some "Latest" posts and some optional Editor’s Picks (name is editable).
Added new "FollowBar" component (newsletter signup + social icons) to footer. Also used on the homepage higher up on the page.
Reworked the footer to be more focused and clean.
Reworked mobile navigation to not include redundant links and to only show up at mobile sizes.
Reworked header to be sticky when users scroll up.
Reworked suggested articles to show newest articles within primary collection.
January 3, 2020 — Speed Up Directory Views
Reworked GraphQL queries for the Maker, Contributor, and Category directory pages resulting in a significant speed improvement.
Updated Craft and Plugins.
December 29, 2019 — External Redirects
Fixed a bug that prevented external redirects from working.
December 12, 2019 — Primary Collection + Dynamic Favicon
Added ability to set a "primary collection" which displays in the article sidebar.
Added ability to archive a collection which sorta just demotes it to a second page on the collections list.
Added new, dynamically colored favicon. Currently working only in Firefox. Starting February 1, 2020 this should work in Chrome as well (pending SVG support for favicons).
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