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 …
Product changes
Foreign language only documents
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Translated editions of documents have been a feature of Whitehall for some months now. To date, the only way to have …
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 …
Whitehall is getting personal and other new features
Some of the Whitehall team may have been taking a well-deserved holiday but the team has kept plugging away on some cracking new features, performance enhancements and tools to aid the transition of ALBs. Here are the highlights for publishers: …
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The information in this blogpost may now be out of date.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 …
Topical event landing pages (updated 11 April 2014)
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Each year, the Queen's Speech sets out the government's legislative agenda for the coming session of the House of Commons. It’s …
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The information in this blogpost may now be out of date.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 …
Social media icons
For the first 5 months of Inside Gov’s young life, organisations have only been able to feature 5 links to the social web in the 'follow us' section of their respective homepages. They were able to link to one account …
HTML publications
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We told you not to use HTML publications until they were a bit more developed. They are now a bit more …
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