Beta: Monday 11th December, 2023
This version brings a lot of small tweaks, improvements and additions, whilst we are also preparing for the big jump to the new hosting provider and continue working on the new version of the Dashboard.
New Hosting Provider
The current hosting environment could not live up to our standards and that’s why we decided to switch to a new provider to build us the environment that is ready for the future.
Big thanks to Chassé to be the first to run their production site on that new hosting environment. After being live for several weeks now, we were able to optimize and now feel we are ready to start migrating everyone to the new environment. The coming months we will move everyone, and for those who manage their own DNS we will need your help doing so.
New Dashboard
For those who missed it: we are also investing in a new version for the Dashboard. First phase is porting all existing functionality to the version (and improving them as we go), next phase will be completely new modules and exciting, improved ways of working. We hope to share more about that somewhere in 2024.
You can enable ‘Beta access to the new Dashboard’ (click on your username in the Dashboard when logged in) if you want to follow the progress and check the converted modules.
Additional updates
- A new parameter is available for the highlight part on the homepage, to force any banner to show a beautiful boxed big image. Use parameter ‘variant’ and set it to ‘hd-card’. Also good to know: You can use the highlight part on other parts of your website aswell. Coop Live uses it on their "What's on" page.
- Also for the homepage, the event slider part now supports multiple genres and tags (this works as an OR operator).
- The People parts on the production page offers more flexibility: if you use same the part layout for several clusters of people, each part can have different styling, color, etc.
- Everywhere were productions are shown, if all events within a production have the same status, the main production button fold-out now also shows that status when all events are in the past - the entire production now shows ‘in the past’ in stead of ‘show dates’.
- Both ‘FAQ/Collapsing Parts’ and the editor-based accordions now use the same styling and have improved animations.
- Showcase banner split variant now has a better crop that fits the showcase layout better.
- We have improved handling of bounces when using the Query Builder for mailings. You will see the number of mails sent will be slightly lower, as we no longer send mailings to email addresses that have bounces too many times. This is important for our mail server reputation in the fight against spam.
- The mailings themselves have seen some tweaks and improvements, most visual is horizontal cards now have an > icon instead of a button.
- The Event feed in the Peppered API now offers separate lists for genres and tags.