Bolt Release Notes - CMS
The Pugpig CMS is made of many components, which can be versioned and released independently. This document outlines the major changes to any of them. Changes to the CMS are rolled out to Express customers automatically. Pro customers will only be upgraded when other work is done on their systems.
The components are:
- Connector - Core Wordpress CMS functionality for sending content to the apps in a meaningful way
- Express - Extension of CMS functionality for authoring content, controlling content templates and appearance, and sending it to the apps in a meaningful way
- Bolt Plugin - Bolt-specific CMS functionality, primarily involving timeline card types and editorial app structure
Note dates are in DD/MM/YYYY format
20/02/2023
Bolt Plugin 5.19
- Fixed an issue causing cards in an edition with a prefix to have an incorrect share URL
- Search card added to available content types
Connector 3.79
- Fixed an issue where audio URLs were too long in some cases
- Add the ability to filter individual articles out of regional feeds
Express 2.53
- Article Text to speech will now use the default HTML5 audio player on web
- Added the ability to insert ad cards into the timeline after every X other cards
06/12/2022
Express 2.48
- The 'Hide from Timeline' functionality can now be mapped from an RSS feed
- RSS videos can now publish to Apple News
21/11/2022
Connector 3.70
- Fixed an issue causing audio to automatically preload
07/11/2022
Express 2.47
- Added a 'Listen' button that will appear at the top of an article if text to speech is enabled
- Added the ability to override article summary on the timeline
Connector 3.69
- Added the Automated Push plugin, allowing the tagging of articles and timelines to automatically send push notifications when processed in Distribution
- Added Arabic, Vietnamese and Mandarin to supported CMS languages
- Added the ability to choose whether HTML, PDF or Both types of pages should show in an Enhanced PDF Table of Contents
Bolt Widgets 5.15
- Added support for Google Ads cards in timelines
- Added the ability to override article summary on the timeline
- Edition covers now display in the CMS edition list
- You can now tap into and swipe to the next page, from an Edition Cover in the Table of Contents
07/10/2022
Connector 3.67
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
13/09/2022
Express 2.45
- Added the ability to override article headlines on the Timeline
- Added main media captions to Apple News
- Contributors are now automatically added as Authors to article cards
- Taxonomy lozenges that appear at the bottom of articles will now appropriately reflect dark mode styling
- Fixed an issue where tapping on an image in the 'read more' section would zoom rather than opening the article
Connector 3.65
- Added support for converting PDFs to images and text directly in the JSON importer
Performance improvements
Bolt Widgets 5.12
- Added the ability to override article headlines on the Timeline
- Edition title and cover can now be controlled separately on the ToC
- Renamed 'External Link Cards' to 'Link Cards'
- Added backend support for timeline grids
- Updated documentation and support links to docs.pugpig.com
09/08/2022
Express 2.44
- Changed "DFP" wording to "Google Ads"
- Added more options and greater flexibility for date and time formats
- Single authors will now be linked to dynamic timelines, previously only worked if there were multiple authors
Connector 3.63
- Unpublished articles no longer count towards post limited in the flatplan
- Improved reliability when populating audio metadata fields
- JSON Importer: added support for converting PDFs to images and text directly in the JSON importer
Bolt Widgets 5.11
- Bolt timelines with automatic section headers enabled now have the option to make these headers collapsible on tap
- Editions are now placed in a "Storefront" tab group by default, to match timelines
- Standardised "scrubber" wording throughout CMS
- Standardised availability of timeline and ToC settings
05/06/2022
Express 2.42
- Re-added Timeline options to Editions in Express, and renamed them ToC options
Connector 3.61
- Added the ability to override Product IDs for single issue purchases (plugin must be switched on)
Bolt Widgets 5.10
- Fixed an issue with dark mode for Hyvor comments