Pugpig Knowledge Base

Supported 3rd party Wordpress plugins for Pugpig Site

Published November 3rd, 2022 by Lucy Fairhurst

In addition to the Pugpig plugins, there are a list of supported 3rd party plugins that can be used optionally across our sites. Plugins Description Required Ads.txt Create, manage, and validate your ads.txt and app-ads.txt from within WordPress, just like any other content asset. Cloudsearch A plugin that allows you to leverage the search index pow

Yoast for Pugpig Site

Published February 28th, 2023 by Lucy Fairhurst

Yoast is the 3rd party plugin we use for SEO across our sites. - https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/ It allows you to configure, and customise content for better search engines results The free Yoast plugin comes with our Pugpig Site product and this allows you to: Add og meta tags to allow you to control what your result looks like in search e

Designing for your Pugpig app

Published November 25th, 2022 by Lucy Fairhurst

Pugpig Bolt is a hybrid app product. This means there are web technologies (ie. HTML, CSS and JavaScript) used within a native app container. Theming the native container The native portion of the apps are developed using elements that iOS and Android provide (where possible), which means their UI looks more consistent with their platform. We suppo

Why are webviews not rendering as expected?

Published October 9th, 2023 by Lucy Fairhurst

It's common for us display externally hosted web pages within our apps. Whilst they are not the best experience for users for app content e.g articles or pages, they are useful for setting pages in the app. It isn't uncommon for these pages to render differently in our app in comparison to the original website. Unfortunately, we do not have control,

Why are script tags being removed from CMS editor?

Published December 18th, 2023 by Lucy Fairhurst

Wordpress by default has a whitelist of tags and attributes and sanitises the post content on save, stripping out anything that does not appear in that whitelist. The <script> and <style> tags are not included in that list by default as it is considered a security hole. It is possible for us to bypass, and allow admins the ability to add

Configuring the search block

Published August 14th, 2023 by Lucy Fairhurst

You can configure search to appear as many times as you like across your Pugpig website. Using our search block plugin you'll be able to configure search to display and behave in a way that suits your site most. Below is a little detail about each of the block settings. Block name: Search Template Block settings Display tab Set the amount of results

RSS to Apple News

Published May 18th, 2023 by Lucy Fairhurst

We can ingest RSS feeds in the CMS and automatically publish those articles straight into apple news for a more seamless workflow. Read more about RSS set up Configuration It is likely that with RSS based ingestion that automatic publishing is wanted. This can be used with Apple News and Apple News +. It can also change how you publish your content

Overview of Apple News

Published March 21st, 2024 by Lucy Fairhurst

What is it? Apple News is an iOS app news aggregator developed by Apple. Users can read articles created by publishers about variety of topics It it exists an app that is available on all iOS devices. There are two offerings: Apple News and Apple News + The standard Apple News channels allow publishers to publish articles to a channel of ‘Latest St

Console debug

Published January 4th, 2023 by Lucy Fairhurst

What is the developer console? The dev console is a tool to allow developers to inspect, edit and debug code that is built into most browsers. The following instructions are for ChromeDev Tools but the same applies to Safari and Firefox alike (though steps may differ). How to open ChromeDev Tools? From your website page in question, right-click/seco