Product changes
We've released a broken link checker feature in Whitehall Publisher. When creating or editing content, you should run the broken link checker before you publish. If the checker finds possible broken links in your content, you'll get a warning listing the faulty …
In user research we’ve seen that users are finding it hard to scan long A to Z lists of content titles on specialist sub-topic pages. This blog post describes some improvements to specialist browse pages we're making to address this …
We're changing the metadata labels across the Departments and Policy section of GOV.UK to make browsing simpler and more intuitive. Many new labels have been added in the last couple of years. What started out as easy to follow has …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. The Product Gaps team are building a new format for long, structured guidance. We’re calling this format ‘manuals’, because many of …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We’ve recently upgraded the ‘featuring’ interface for GOV.UK publishers. For the first time, you can promote items that live outside the …
We’ve already written a post about the new organisation template and our reasons for creating it. This is an update about the impact of using the new layout for DVLA. After the search page and the home page, DVLA's organisation …
We’ve just launched 37 new content analytics dashboards onto the Performance Platform. We hope they will help people in government departments and agencies see at a glance how their content is performing. This blogpost tells you why we’ve built them, and …
Government publishers can now more accurately describe to users what’s happened to ‘closed’ organisations. This blogpost tells you how we’ve modelled the changes, and what government publishers should do now. When ‘closed’ isn’t quite right Every now and then, government adjusts …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. One of the principles behind GOV.UK is that users shouldn’t need to know what each government department or agency is responsible …
We’re shortly releasing an update to GOV.UK search that we are calling ‘unified search’. This update presents search results from all of GOV.UK in a single list, rather than the tabbed page layout separating the ‘Services and information’ content from …