Learn about our plans for GOV.UK Chat, the AI-powered chat system we’ve built as an easier, quicker way to interact with government.
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...
...previewed URLs because we do not rewrite those links automatically. For example: BOO HISS https://whitehall-admin.production.alphagov.co.uk/travel-insurance?cachebust=1362409293&preview=139044 HURRAY https://whitehall-admin.production.alphagov.co.uk/government/admin/detailed-guides/189802 Note that the correct link contains ‘admin’ and a number, as opposed to...
...not sustainable to deal with these requests directly by phone and email, especially with the hundreds of ALBs soon to join the site. From now on, if you call or...
...Content which has been scheduled and published will appear all around the site simultaneously at the scheduled time – there won’t be a delay because of the cache. But what...
We’ve published updated guidance about blogging on GOV.UK. Please go to the new guidance pages to find out how to request a new blog and how to manage a blog. You may also find it useful to read the Government …
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.