Pugpig Knowledge Base

Content ordering and curation

Published June 3rd, 2024 by Emillie Ruston

This document lays out the options for how timeline content can be ordered in your app, and some considerations for ordering your content most effectively. Timelines are the Pugpig terminology for what you might refer to as section fronts/pages. What are the options for driving the order of content in a timeline? Curation can happen either in the Pu

Submitting apps in China

Published April 23rd, 2024 by Emillie Ruston

The app and app store landscape in China is very different to the rest of the world. If you're considering making your app available in China we recommend making sure you're fully up to speed with the requirements and considerations. We'll outline some information here but we're not experts on app submissions for China, and the policies do shift fr

Gifting articles

Published June 19th, 2024 by Emillie Ruston

Our gifting feature enables subscribers to share specific pieces of otherwise-protected content to non-subscribers. This is a feature where we provide most of the infrastructure (and all of the UI) for this on our side, however we will need an API from you, details of which are below. Auth provider support Given the information required to be passe

Pugpig App Update Pack

Published July 4th, 2022 by Emillie Ruston

Everything changes - and with periodical updates of Apple iOS and Android, along with upgrades of your Pugpig app containers, you’re going to want to keep up to date so that you can take advantage of the latest advances that are available to you. And the Pugpig update pack is the best way to do this - it’s our way of helping you through the process

Welcome Screens on Pugpig Bolt

Published July 4th, 2022 by Emillie Ruston

When Do Welcome Screens Appear? Initial Launch: Displayed only on the first app launch post-installation. App Updates: Not shown after updates unless the welcome screens feature is newly implemented. Components of a Welcome Screen Each screen can include: Image (Optional): Positioned above the text. Provide a large transparent PNG; no fixed size, bu

Pugpig App Search API

Published November 1st, 2022 by Emillie Ruston

Pugpig has an API for searching across all content for a publication. It's currently used by the Pugpig search products and the apps' lookup service, but can also be opened up to third parties developing extensions to Pugpig apps. AWS CloudSearch sits behind our search API but for various reasons we do not allow direct access to it. Have a look at o

A/B testing in your Pugpig app

Published July 23rd, 2024 by Emillie Ruston

We're exploring how you can maximise the results you get from your Pugpig app via experimentation. Many of our customers will be familiar with running experiments like A/B tests on their websites, which can often be facilitated by fairly simple drop-in solutions. Historically we've not seen an appetite for carrying this over into our apps, however a

Setting up Apple News in the Pugpig CMS

Published July 4th, 2022 by Emillie Ruston

This document will outline the steps needed to configure Apple News in the Pugpig CMS. These steps are the same for both Apple News and Apple News +. Note You will need to have an iCloud account with News Publisher channel set up to proceed with these next steps. Read more information on News Publisher How to set up Apple News to publish content 1.

The Pugpig App QA Process

Published August 21st, 2022 by Emillie Ruston

There are three distinct strands of testing at Pugpig: Product, Project and Pre-submission. These are carried out by our in-house QA department, with assistance from the development, support and product teams. Product Our product testing occurs throughout the development cycle, with all features, changes and fixes being specifically tested, as well

Distribution Overview - Pugpig Domains

Published July 4th, 2022 by Emillie Ruston

Pugpig is a SaaS platform, so all internal tools used by editorial/marketing/etc will be on a pugpig.com domain. These cannot be changed to be your own domain. DISTRIBUTION SERVICE DOMAIN When these are available you will log into the distribution service using:<account>.admin.pugpig.com TESTING/STAGING CONTENT DOMAIN: The original public faci