How search works
The improved GOV.UK site search has been up for a few days now. It makes things better for users by headlining the top 3 search results, then showing the rest under just 2 tabs. ‘Services and information’ shows all the mainstream …
Neil Williams
Head of GOV.UK.
Neil tweets as @neillyneil
Sprint ending 18 June is all about transition
Yesterday was the start of a new sprint. (We plan our work in weekly sprints, which run from Wednesday to Tuesday). The theme of this week’s sprint is transition prep. Bar a handful of other stories (eg to fix a …
Embedding contact information into pages
Inserting contacts into pages just got lots easier. Instead of going to the organisation admin and copying the contact reference markdown to your clipboard, you can now just start typing and then pick the relevant contact from a list. Here’s …
Good news and bad news about email alerts
First the bad news. As many of you will have noticed, we experienced a nasty bug today which meant that email alerts were going out with only the format name and change note for each content item, without a title or …
Linking from one Inside Government [Whitehall] document to another
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. When linking from one Inside Government [Whitehall] document to another the pro-tip here is to go to the document list in …
Using the support form
With 24 depts and 31 other orgs now live on the site, it won’t surprise you to hear that we get a lot of support requests, questions and suggestions. It’s not sustainable to deal with these requests directly by phone …
Editing documents scheduled for publication
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We received some questions about the scheduled publishing feature, the answers to which are worth sharing with all admin users. The …
Adding contact information on an org page
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We’ve been doing a lot to improve the handling of contact data lately. Here’s some new information about the stuff we …
Tracking a ticket in Pivotal
We’re in the habit of sharing links to tickets in our public Pivotal Tracker project to let people see how we’ve translated their request into a user story, and so they can track where it is in the backlog. Pivotal’s interface is not …
Removing content
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Liz Hitchcock in the Inside Government content team has asked us to update you on the process for removing content …
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