From The BLOG
April’s updates and site improvementsWe hope you’re doing OK, friends. Here’s what we did on the Civic Tech Field Guide in April: Reached 3,800 project profiles in the collection Added evolving Causes taxonomy to homepage table of contents and primary navigation Launched COVID-19 community response page New category, Predecessors, is a result of our timeline research, and is a […]
We hope you’re doing OK, friends. Here’s what we did on the Civic Tech Field Guide in April:
- Reached 3,800 project profiles in the collection
- Added evolving Causes taxonomy to homepage table of contents and primary navigation
- Launched COVID-19 community response page
- New category, Predecessors, is a result of our timeline research, and is a place to catalog projects and organizations that were fundamental to the development of the field, historically.
- New category, Fabrication, recognizes the work being done to produce Personal Protective Equipment where there are shortages.
- New category, Newsletter tech, in the Media section, recognizes the growing importance of email newsletters.
- New category, Meeting tech, to track tech that facilitates and improves outcomes from interpersonal meetings, whether face to face or remote.
- Added Teen Messaging page to Coronavirus Community Response section.
- Revamped the Get Funding page to help struggling organizations.
- Upgraded to WordPress 5.4.
- Optimized 5,807 images for faster page speeds, and set up future image uploads to auto-optimize.
- Stripped EXIF data from images for speed and privacy enhancements.
- Cleaned up Listing profile pages:
- Added Tags, and reformatted All tags page.
- Made taglines more legible, added spaces between categories, reduced fontsize of ‘Last edited’ data.
- Hide acquisition amount if the field is empty.
- We now show display your search queries by default on the search results page.
- Added the latest curated country pages to the homepage.