Haymarket Media Engineering
Writing successful development tickets requires understanding the problem to explain it simply in a very concise manner. The easiest of these to draft are malfunction tickets. Something is broken and needs to be investigated then likely fixed as soon as possible.
In order to do this we must craft each ticket in a manner that breaks the work down into the smallest achievable scope as possible.
In order to provision a new site, you will need to properly configure the Oracle Infinity CX Tag WordPress plugin. However, you must generate the CX Tag in Oracle’s console before you can do that, and this article will guide you through that process.
There are two distinct facets to managing work in Jira that relate to financial reporting. The first is research and development (R&D) and the second if capital expenditures (CapEx). Each of these are distinguished from routine maintenance and require tracking the time specific to their effort. To start off we will look at CapEx which […]
This article covers the steps necessary to successfully setup two factor authentication (2fa) on various Atlassian products like Jira.
In order to efficiently support web product the team has established an official tiered support matrix for Browsers, Devices and Viewport Sizes.
Here are some best practices to follow when working on web development to ensure your HTML is both semantic and accessible.
When creating a new page on the legal site and saving it as a draft or publishing, when it is viewed you an see the menu of all of the pages that are saved on the legal site above the content for the specific page. To remove the menu from the top of the page […]
How to properly add tracking links to HTML email CTAs
This is a basic guide on what to look out for and how to QA our HTML emails.
This is a basic guide on what to look out for and how to QA our animated banners created for DeepIntent and Lasso.
Utilizing Cloudflare reverse proxies one can assemble a web experience combining multiple distinct origin content sources into a unified site. It takes careful planning and requires a level of sophistication beyond the normal web site build paradigm. If executed properly the results are worth the complexity.
Cache is a temporary way to keep frequently accessed data to help websites or any software or hardware run faster and speed up browsing experience. That basically means that with caching it is allowed to reuse previously retrieved data. There are many benefits of caching such as: Reduce the load on the backend Reduce database […]
As with any new technology there is a bit of a learning curve this article is aimed at teaching the basic related to the new flexible taxonomy feed system.
Part of the challenge of maintaining and developing websites is the ability to ensure that you are testing for the right devices and screen resolutions. The first step in this battle is understanding what screen sizes are relevant to your particular situation and then adjusting your tools to account for these variances. Your first stop […]
With the release 1.4.0 unifying the HM Bibblio Manager by assimilating HM Bibblio Consumer into the main plugin there have been a number of challenges necessitating specific changes ot our processes. Namely the retirement of rc release candidate style branches and replacing them with a single princess branch. What’s with all this princess business anyway? […]
In this post you will learn how to convert posts form one content type to another utilizing custom post types and type switching tools.
**********THIS IS A DRAFT ********* In the past Business Media has had a major gap in our offerings. We’ve never been able to feature content from our partner in a grand way, in one place within our sites. This type of practice is quite common on our competitors’ sites. Partner Channel Pages is our answer. […]
The HM Theme Content block has caused performance problems as the HM Network grows. Read here to learn more
NOTE: This post was created in 2021 – please review thoroughly before implementing Why use it? While creating a node environment for an application, the packages used are often dependent on the node version that the developer is running at the time. e.g. the current Haymarket theme build is only compatible up to node version […]
In the admin go to Appearance -> Widgets Scroll to the widget entitled Junction Promotion, choose the page type you would like this to appear in, then click “Add Widget” Next you can edit the widget’s contents within page you added it to. Staying in the same page in the admin, traverse to the page […]
In the admin navigate to the Junction Manager Select the Junction where you would like to promote this module on article pages. Once selected you will notice entries for 3 separate Promo posts: Enter the post ids which you would like to display in the module (It is recommended to use all three promo posts […]
Overview of gutenberg blocks An overview of the Gutenberg Block concept can be found here https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/. Using Gutenberg Blocks is now the standard over the classic editor and gives the editor more freedom with styles and layout of a post. One can follow development and cutting edge updates of the Gutenberg Blocks slated for wp […]
Push content from one site to another Receiving site’s canonical URL setting for that content Select post which distribute with another site. Open receiving site and edit distributed posts. In post SEO setting advanced tab verify canonical URL. Also, verify Canonical URL in source code as below Pull content from one site to another Receiving […]
This is a simple how to post discuss one of the basic editorial features intrinsically available to WordPress since it’s early days. While this article focuses on how to password protect a post it applies to pages and just about any other content type available in WordPress. Simply follow the process built into the CMS. […]
This article is intended for developers who need to use DRUG API in production. As we already know staging API is publicly available and we can easily request any kind of information from the ODIE staging while the production API requires a generated HMAC key. In the following paragraphs, I will show a signature example […]
As discussions surrounding Digital Accessibility continue there’s one topic that keeps coming up – How to get our Design and Engineering teams to infuse Accessibility components for greater usability. Thinking on this topic and raising the questions along with suggestions in a few Accessibility forums, I was reminded that there are more Accessibility Checklists being […]
As teams and the number of projects grow especially with increasingly short timelines, it is important to have a plan in place to manage multiple moving parts of a development effort. While we always try to avoid code hording, it is equally important to reject any form of branch hijacking. Enter the project branch to help manage branch insanity resulting from the latter.
By default, WordPress allows any users with the edit_posts capability to assign categories or tags to a post. It also allows any users with the manage_categories capability to manage, edit, and delete both categories and tags. As we need more control we use the Members plugin to control capabilities per role. This plugin has a Category and Tag Caps […]
Crawling can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. Because of the number of pages that we submit in the general sitemap and as we have multiple sitemaps in the general directory as in the case on the EMPR below, sometimes it is better to submit each sitemap for crawling individually. Submitting […]
Maintaining engineering team velocity often requires additional TechDebt related work outside of simply developing and deploying new features. One of the main troubles is the maintaining the integrity and support of various environments. In this article we will cover how to manage syncing data into the other support environments.
Documentation on how UAT and PREPROD environments are set up for testing Bibblio integration.
