Latest posts by Jer Clarke
Summit 2017 Community Meeting Notes: Bring on the Comments!
Greetings GVers! Alas, the GV Summit 2017 has come and gone, but we still have the memories — and lots and lots of notes collected from our many sessions. At long last, a few of us core teamers (Eddie, Ellery, Lauren and myself) have gathered all of the notes we could,...
New GV Feature: Contributor Achievements!
Hi GV Community, we're launching a small new feature on the GV sites and I wanted to send out a warning because the feature will be sending you email and we don't want anyone getting surprised. GV Contributor Achievements Beta The feature is called Achievements. Like in video games, the achievements...
Facebook Sharing Woes: Using the URL Debugger to fix post metadata
When a post looks wrong when shared on Facebook or Twitter, use the Facebook Sharing Debugger and Twitter Card Validator to reset the metadata to fix the display!
Instagram Embeds on GV: Updated Guides
Hi all, quick post to point out that I've reviewed and updated the Instagram embedding guidelines for GV sites. It's nothing too wild, but there has been some confusion and we added a new feature, so I figured I'd go over the main solution for embedding Instagram, the new hidecaption=1 option...
GV Has Taglines On Posts Now?
Here at Global Voices Tech HQ (my apartment) we try to avoid overloading the editing process for GV posts with a million steps and processes because we don't want you to have too many things to worry about and potentially mess up. Sometimes a new feature is worth it though, and...
Facebook Instant Articles Are Live on GV: What you need to know
Greetings Earthling Voices! As we promised in our format test post Facebook Instant Articles, the nebulous publishing tool that makes our posts ultra fast for mobile Facebook visitors, is now active and working on the English Global Voices and Advox sites! We'll be rolling out the setup onto all the...
GV Will Have Instant Articles – A Test Post
This is a sassy test content article that also goes over the custom styles supported by GV for storytelling and how they will look in Instant Articles. Please see the Facebook Instant Articles Guide for a technical overview of how to use them. (italic) Do you think Global Voices should implement Facebook's...
Useful new WordPress and Lingua features
Hello, I'm Jeremy the lead developer for Global Voices. We just updated all sites to use the latest version of WordPress (4.5.3) and I wanted to demo a few cool features that have been added recently. Lingua: Link your “matching” accounts across sites! It's been awhile that the Lingua system...
Lingua Tech: Multiple authors per-post is here!
As promised in my last post about changes to credits display on Lingua, today we are launching a whole new feature across GV: The option to set more than one person as contributor in a post!
Lingua Tech: All your posts on all your sites!
Hi GV! I'm Jeremy the Tech Director of Global Voices. Along with our coding contractor Carl, I've been working on a really big update to the plugins that control the Lingua translation system. Today we're launching the first piece, so I wanted to share it with you to avoid surprises...
