Pugpig Knowledge Base

Google Ads Settings in Express

Published June 4th, 2024 by Natty Yarwood

Ad Unit Default Settings Default Ad units and their associated settings are specified app-wide in Pugpig Express Settings, with the option to override on a per edition or article level. You can specify the number of paragraphs before the first ad, independent of the general placement, as well as capping the number of ads displayed per page. This is

The Scrubber

Published December 1st, 2023 by Natty Yarwood

What is the Scrubber? The scrubber, also known as the collection navigator, is a feature which gives users an alternate way to scroll and rotate through content within both editions and timelines. This appears as a carousel of pages that pops up from the bottom of the app or webpage, displaying ordered snapshots of each article within the flatplan.

Ads on paywall pages

Published June 4th, 2024 by Natty Yarwood

We do not display ads on pages with paywalls to prevent them showing on top of the paywall. This also means they will not display on the article page that a user signs in on (until navigating away and returning), or on metered paywall pages. We currently have an issue on devices using splitscreen mode, where ads can appear on one side of the screen

Amazon Polly text to speech

Published November 24th, 2022 by Natty Yarwood

Amazon Polly is a cloud platform that converts text into speech. We have integrated it into Pugpig Bolt, allowing you to have an audio option for your articles, as a button in the timeline and in the article, which launches our native audio player. Pricing Please note that there are costs involved with setting up and using Amazon Polly. These are:

Troubleshooting Google Ads

Published May 31st, 2024 by Natty Yarwood

Generally we don't require access to your Google Ad Manager account, so for troubleshooting there are a couple of tools you can use depending on the ads in question. Inline ads are served in webviews and can thus quite easily be inspected on your Bolt Web Reader. If you don't have a live web reader you can use your preview reader to the same effect.

Interstitial Ads

Published May 31st, 2024 by Natty Yarwood

Full Page Interstitial This is supported from Android 3.24 and iOS 4.1. This ad displays after the app startup flow has completed. This is served using the SDK and is treated as an native app placement.

Norkon Live Center

Published July 18th, 2024 by Natty Yarwood

Overview Norkon Live Center is a live-blogging platform that allows users to integrate live blogs seamlessly into content. How does Pugpig Bolt integrate with Norkon? Norkon Live Center scripts are supported in articles, used for adding live updates to an article. The script can be added straight into the WYSIWYG text editor, or it can be included

Taxonomies

Published November 20th, 2024 by Natty Yarwood

How taxonomies are used Taxonomy data sent in your content feeds helps to categorise and organise your content effectively. With Dynamic Timelines, this data is especially useful for Contributors (authors) and Sections (e.g., Sport, Technology). These timelines group and display content based on assigned terms, enabling features like Term Cards to s

Google Ads - Inline & Timeline MPU Placements

Published May 30th, 2024 by Natty Yarwood

Inline MPU 300x250 We support the ability to serve ads within the content view of an article, these are served inline via GPT, rather than the native SDK - this is because articles are webviews. This utilises the widely-used 300x250 size creative. The ad unit will collapse if there's no suitable ad to serve, so as not to leave empty space in the co

Custom Targeting

Published June 3rd, 2024 by Natty Yarwood

Information about the article or collection is passed in the ad request. This enables targeting via taxonomy using key value pairs, which you set up in your Google's Ad Manager. For example, the section, author, edition can all be passed as targeting information to GAM, allowing you granular control over which ads are served where without having to

Regional Feeds

Published October 21st, 2024 by Natty Yarwood

Overview This Express feature allows you to send content from a singular CMS into multiple content feeds, which can then be plugged into different publications. This is most commonly used when several publications under an account share the same content, and can be especially helpful when content is created manually. Regional feeds remove the need t

Disqus and Pugpig Bolt

Published January 23rd, 2025 by Natty Yarwood

What is Disqus? Disqus is a leading commenting platform helping publishers to drive user engagement through discussions. It allows authenticated users to leave comments and ratings on articles, enabling a more interactive content experience. How does Pugpig Bolt integrate with Disqus? Required SSO Please note you will need a Disqus Comments Business

Google Ads Adaptive Banner

Published May 31st, 2024 by Natty Yarwood

Adaptive Banner Bolt supports the Adaptive Banner unit in the content and timeline views. This sticky bottom unit is a native app placement which is served via the Google Ads SDK, and will remain fixed at the bottom of the view as the user scrolls. As of Bolt 3.18, the bottom banner features a border to distinguish it from the content behind it an

Google Ads Leaderboard Banner

Published June 11th, 2024 by Natty Yarwood

We can also serve a 320x50 leaderboard at the very top of articles and timelines, which is not sticky and will disappear as users scroll. This unit sees very high viewability, so is good for expanding your inventory, and is served inline via a Google Publisher Tag (GPT) rather than the SDK. This is therefore treated as a web advert. Inline top banne

Broadstreet Ads

Published September 25th, 2024 by Natty Yarwood

What is Broadstreet? Broadstreet is an Ad Manager provider built for publishers. How does Pugpig Bolt integrate with Broadstreet? We can support inline Broadstreet Ads using JS scripts. Currently this implementation only covers in-article placements, of which we've successfully tested content MPUs and bottom banner. This is largely an automated bas

Suppressing Google Adverts

Published June 4th, 2024 by Natty Yarwood

We have the ability to disable all ads for specific users, this is based on the response we get from your authorisation system, which optionally passes a flag into the content which disables ads for that user. This can be useful if, for example, you don't want to show ads to premium users, or younger users. In order to make use of this feature, tell

Newspack and Pugpig Bolt

Published September 4th, 2024 by Natty Yarwood

What is Newspack? Newspack is one of Pugpig's partners; it's an open-source publishing platform built on WordPress for small to medium news publishers. Pugpig can easily integrate with Newspack sites to transform them into standardised Bolt apps with minimal effort. How does Pugpig Bolt integrate with Newspack? Pugpig Bolt comes integrated with eve

AppsFlyer and Pugpig Bolt

Published December 6th, 2023 by Natty Yarwood

What is AppsFlyer? AppsFlyer is an analytics and mobile attribution platform that supports uninstall tracking on both platforms on both iOS and Android. Pugpig Bolt supports the integration of the AppsFlyer on both iOS and Android, following our usual analytics spec which sends all of these events to your AppsFlyer dashboard. What do we need from

Parse.ly scripts

Published January 22nd, 2025 by Natty Yarwood

What is Parse.ly? Parse.ly is a content analytics platform that helps organisations track and understand how their digital content is performing. How does Pugpig Bolt integrate with Parse.ly? Our current implementation simply injects the Parse.ly JS script onto every article page. This is configured server-side in Pugpig Express, and can be very ea

Hyvor and Pugpig Bolt

Published November 1st, 2022 by Natty Yarwood

What is Hyvor? Hyvor is a digital engagement platform that offers commenting and live blogs. It's a lightweight solution with lower prices than other, more fully-featured providers such a Viafoura and Disqus. You can see what the commenting experience looks like by visiting their site and clicking the “View Demo” button near the top of the page. Wha