We’ve been running a few sessions with government organisations to look at how we can more clearly communicate developments to GOV.UK. In response, we’re introducing some changes to this blog. ‘Publishing essentials’: only get emails about the really important stuff The …
...idea is that, in future, content in any format from across GOV.UK will be able to be grouped together around specialist topics. These specialist or "sector" browse pages will replace...
Update: as part of our migration work to make our frontend architecture simpler, we will be removing the business support API. See Tim's blog post for more details and dates you need to know.
Faster documents filter in publisher Editors often tell us that the slow and confusing documents filter is the worst bit of the departments and policy publisher. So we've made it quicker. We've also redesigned it so that you can select …
Back in June, I wrote about retiring our format icons — they didn’t test well and ultimately weren’t useful to users. Though the icons were removed, we kept the format names. These are labels that denote the type of content …
There are several pages on GOV.UK which have feeds you can subscribe to in a feed reader. Feeds allow you to see what is new across these pages without having to visit them individually. In the past, we linked directly to …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Last week we introduced a new feature that allows users to preview any CSV file on GOV.UK. This means users can …
We've added social media sharing buttons to 4 formats in the departments and policy section. If you look at the end of any consultation, news story, press release or world...
The majority of problems reported by users on the departments and policy section of GOV.UK are about bad links. In the last couple of days, we've added validation checks to make sure all links created using markdown in the departments …
...created and retrieved for editing. Publishers in ministerial departments will want to read this post closely so they understand how this works now. What's changed Previously, the main overview page...
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