Changelog

Coming Up

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]).
Reworked Makers 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.

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.

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.

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.

Added support for rich text in FollowBar / Newsletter settings.
Added simple newsletter page.
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.

Reworked "Headlines" collection display to allow for background image. Also redesigned the image functionality for more consistent readability.

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

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)

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.

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.

Reworked GraphQL queries for the Maker, Contributor, and Category directory pages resulting in a significant speed improvement.
Updated Craft and Plugins.

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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