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How to Enable Breadcrumbs in Layout & Design Tool

RebelMouse supports breadcrumbs for all pages. Breadcrumbs are navigational aids that help users keep track of where they are on your site, as well as make it easy to go back and forth between pages. In this latest update, we take the path of the URL and output it as the breadcrumb so users can easily click back to the subsection, section, or home page:

Users can add the Breadcrumb element to any page. Here's how it works:

  • There are two optional fields that allow you to control how your breadcrumb is displayed:
    • Anchor: Allows you to choose the name for the home page item within the trail.
    • Separator: Allows you to choose the symbol that will serve as the separator between items.

An interesting thing to keep in mind is that your site's breadcrumb trail order is fully customizable, so you can pick and choose how it's structured:

In Entry Editor, you can also control if you want the Post Title to be exposed in your breadcrumb trail, or if you'd rather have a customized title show up for it instead.

For example, in this NYLON article the breadcrumb structure could be set to output the following: Home > Section > Post Title. If this were to be configured, it would resolve as "Home > Fashion > Pistachio Is The It Color Of 2019" by default.

And if you were to customize the Post Title, it wouldn't affect the actual title of the post — just the final item in the breadcrumb trail. So if we changed the Breadcrumb Title to "2019 The Year Of Pistachio," it would appear like this in the trail: "Home > Fashion > 2019 The Year Of Pistachio."

The following is an example from one of our test sites. This is what it looks like in Entry Editor:

And here's how it looks live on the site:

Breadcrumb Trail Items

There are several breadcrumb items you can include or exclude:

  • Home Page Title
  • Section
  • Subsection
  • Tag
  • Community (if applicable)
  • Author (of the post)
  • Search Phrase
  • Search Phrase Title
  • Post Title
Although our breadcrumbs are highly customizable, there are some best practices that should be taken into consideration when using them on your site. We've taken some of the guesswork out of the equation by incorporating these best practices into our breadcrumbs' default behavior and overall structure.

Post Page

The first breadcrumb is the site's title, which is fully customizable. This is followed by a primary section breadcrumb, and then a subsection breadcrumb (this may not be applicable to you if your site does not use subsections). All of these breadcrumbs are fully clickable and link back to the preceding page. The final breadcrumb is the post title, or article headline, which is not clickable. 

    Site Title > Section > Subsection > Post Title

Section Page

The first breadcrumb should be the site's title, which is fully customizable, followed by the section, which is not clickable. 

    Site Title > Section

Subsection Page

The first breadcrumb should be the site's title, which is fully customizable. This is followed by the parent section, which is clickable, and then the subsection, which is not clickable. 

    Site Title > Parent Section > Subsection

Tag Page

The first breadcrumb should be the site's title, which is fully customizable, followed by the section, which is not clickable. 

    Site Title > Tag

Search Page

The first breadcrumb should be the site's title, which is fully customizable, followed by the search, which is not clickable, and then finally, the search phrase itself. 

    Site Title > Search > Search Phrase

Author Page

The first breadcrumb should be the site's title, which is fully customizable, followed by community (if one exists), and then the author. 

    Site Title > Community (if it exists) > Author

If you have any questions about this feature, please email support@rebelmouse.com.

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Publishers No Longer Have to Submit Their Site to Google News

Google's Publisher Center creates new opportunities for audience growth

Just before the start of the next decade, Google announced an important change to its Google News offering with the launch of Google Publisher Center. The new interface merges Google News Producer and Google News Publisher into one to streamline the partnership process for publishers.

Overall, the change should make it easier for publishers to manage their Google News settings, including updating themes, directing URLs to section pages, and configuring user permissions. Read the full list of features here.

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How to Find Work-Life Balance as a Remote Employee

Tips from our CEO on making the most of an office-free lifestyle

Working from home is becoming increasingly popular, with an estimated 66% of companies now allowing remote work and 16% operating completely office-free. RebelMouse is one of those fully remote companies, and over the years we've mastered how to stay close to each other despite being spread across more than a dozen countries. We believe working remotely is good for both our personal lives and our productivity. Read more about this here.

Still, working free from the shackles of an office environment doesn't mean every day is a dance party in your pajamas from 9 to 5. Working from home comes with its own set of challenges just like any other job.

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The Power of Our RebelCMS Front End

A quick guide to how we power the modern content lifecycle

The open web is not linear. In the next decade, quality content will continue to mean nothing without effective distribution that translates into increased wins on site, search, and social. The content lifecycle is fluid in nature, and users are only going to become more picky about consuming content where they feel the most comfortable. Keeping tabs on the modern user is a tireless job, and most publishing technologies cannot keep up with the rapid speed of the industry.

RebelCMS offers an intelligent front end that gives content creators the powerful tools they need to guide a modern content strategy that's backed by data and designed for savvy audiences. With blazing page speeds, an elegant user experience, and community-focused marketing tools snapped into every workflow, publishers can take back organic growth and sustainable revenue as we enter the 2020s.

Here's a brief summary of how we power the modern content lifecycle:

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Inside RebelMouse’s Quality Assurance Operations

How We've Perfected Stress-Free Publishing

At RebelMouse, we like to refer to our enterprise publishing platform as "lean tech." Most publishers have a natural inclination to start doubling down on teams of developers who try to build unique experiences to help stand out above the noise. But they should actually be doing the opposite: Lean tech is the preferred way to cut through content saturation. By allowing RebelMouse to obsess over your product, content producers, editors, managers, and everyone in between can focus on creating quality content and taking advantage of opportunities to leverage distributive publishing strategies that create real revenue growth.

One of the major reasons we're able to maintain a lean tech environment is thanks to our approach to quality assurance (QA). We make updates to our platform daily to ensure our clients always have access to the most robust, high-performing, and secure version of our platform. Behind the scenes, this means having a solid QA structure that's efficient, creates less bugs, and catches the ones that do pop up before they go live. It's a system of checks and balances that's hard and costly to replicate on a custom CMS. Here's a glimpse into how it works.

Our Tech Stack Toolbox

  • Cucumber
  • Java
  • Junit
  • Maven
  • Selenium WebDriver
  • TeamCity
  • Zalenium (Selenium Grid)

Our Checks and Balances Workflow

Automated Regression Testing Cycle

The Lifecycle of a Product Update

When an update is first made to RebelMouse, TeamCity immediately triggers the start of automated tests to review integrity.

TeamCity Build

TeamCity Agent

The tests run in parallel on TeamCity's Build Agent. Next, Zalenium creates docker containers with browsers that matches the count of parallel threads. An Allure report is then generated from the test results, which shows the state of the application after the update.

Allure Report Pass

If a test doesn't complete successfully, the testing framework receives a video with a failed test and attaches it to the Allure report.

Allure Report Issue

Based on the report analysis, a QA specialist will create a "bug" ticket in our product management software to address the issue if needed. Then, information about the bug is immediately sent to the project manager and we begin the process of correcting the problem.

The media powerhouses we power can publish with confidence knowing that any product issues that arise are met with a tried-and-true process to fix the problem with little-to-no disturbance to their workflow. If you have any questions about this process, please email support@rebelmouse.com.

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