Learn about the key findings from our pilots of GOV.UK Chat, and how we’ve evaluated its performance ahead of the next phase.
...Gov on other parts of GOV.UK, like the travel alerts service. Knowing when the office is open is usually helpful to people before they rock up there. Cleaned up a...
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...
...this: Currently this is just a view of the data. The work for this week includes beginning to get data into the tool automatically and enabling organisations to edit it....
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date.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...
There’s been a GDS team diligently working away improving search on GOV.UK. They’ve asked us to relay some important general advice to Whitehall publishers. They’ve come across several apparent duplicate results while testing site search, which are confusing users. There are two …
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...
We wrote here last week about the plans for the GOV.UK blogs platform and how to get one. Alongside the technical work being done by dxw, we asked Steph Gray of Helpful Technology to talk to nine ministerial departments with blog platforms to identify the …
We wanted to share with others the thoughtful approach that the No10 digital team have taken to covering the recent tragic events in Woolwich on GOV.UK. As the story unfolded, the team decided to keep a single landing page updated with the …
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...
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 GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out what’s been happening, and what’s coming next, on the GDS blog.