Newspack
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We’re overhauling the custom GA events we integrated into Newspack sites since late 2023. This overhaul simplifies the number of events we send, standardizes most of the event parameters sent with different events, and should improve the accuracy and usability of these analytics going forward. Note that to use these events, you will still need…
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This week’s release is a big one, and includes a redesign of our Newspack Dashboard, a “lite” version of your site for emergencies, and an option to set a fallback for missing images. We’ve also added a number smaller features and bugfixes since our last release. Newspack Dashboard redesign We’ve done some house cleaning in…
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This release contains a number of improvements to the Republication Tracker Tool, a plugin Newspack adopted when INN Labs shut down. This tool adds the ability for people and other publications to easily republish stories from a site. As an example, here is a post from Oklahoma Watch that can be republished. We’ve recently released…
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Lookout Local saves more than $100K a year in technology costs and about six hours per week on newsletter creation.
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Rate limit new payment methods in My Account In the prior release, we added rate limiting to checkout attempts. This time around we added rate limiting to new payment methods in My Account, to guard against this UI being used for card testing. Modal Checkout Transaction Details now behind a toggle This release simplifies the…
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Improved settings UI for the Content Loop (formerly Homepage Posts) block The Homepage Posts block has been renamed the Content Loop block, acknowledging its broader usefulness beyond its original intent. A true no-padding option for campaign popups In this release, a true ‘No Padding’ option will be available for campaign popups, and the existing ‘No…
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Modal Checkout fallback when an unsupported payment gateway is selected The Modal Checkout officially supports Stripe Gateway, WooPayments, and Paypal Payments as payment gateways (as well as non-electronic payment options, like bank transfers, cash on delivery, and checks). Prior to this release if you enabled another payment gateway, it would not allow you to complete…
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Happy 2025! Our first releases this year focus on improvements to our reCAPTCHA v2 support, and making sure readers on networked sites don’t accidentally purchase duplicate memberships. Improved reCAPTCHA v2 coverage and error messages In the past couple weeks, we’ve made improvements to the reCAPTCHA v2 support in the modal checkout and other blocks. Some…
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In our final release for 2024 — what we’ve dubbed a mini stability update — we focused on some fixes and features to help make your sites run a little smoother heading into the new year: Improved subscription status handling after payment failures By default, WooCommerce will set subscriptions to ‘On Hold’ indefinitely after payment…
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The Journal increased its weekly average revenue by 235% and paid supporter revenue by 107%. Here’s how.
