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Introducing: Entry Editor Upgrades

RebelMouse is a community of content creators who know what it takes to create contagious media. That's why we are always improving on the creation process. We're constantly perfecting a workflow that sets up each piece of content for revenue-focused, social success.

Our Entry Editor is the ultimate toolset. It's the intersection where content, social, and distribution finally bleed together. We've made some innovative updates to our Entry Editor to make the content creation process even better. Here's the latest:


New Preview View

Now you can preview your post anytime within the same window of the Entry Editor to see your work transform in real time. And when you're ready to get back to work? Simply click "Edit" to return back to the Entry Editor interface at any time.

New Mobile Media Search with Infinite Scroll

Social curation on mobile has never been easier. With this updated feature, blend together social elements to make your content multidimensional (because only talking about yourself is boring).

When using our listicle tool, you can now insert multiple images and videos within the body of your post. For example, writing a story on rock climbing? Pull up the five best Facebook videos of rock climbing, embed Instagram posts from industry influencers, and even sprinkle in some GIFs from GIPHY if you want. The best part? The search results are infinite.

Click here to learn more about mobile social curation. This feature is also available on desktop.

Slideshows in Listicles

We love a good listicle. Always have, always will. But now we've taken listicles to the next level by allowing each list point to become a multimedia slideshow. Vice versa — you can also turn your slideshow into a listicle just as easily. Either way, this feature transforms your content into bite-sized pieces that are apt for social sharing across platforms.

Click here for step-by-step instructions on how to make your listicle the best it can be. The results are stunning.

Email Influencers on Every Post

Our Entry Editor is designed to reach influencers on a variety of outreach levels before, during, and after publish. Find potential sharing partners on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, and use our proprietary technology to email them a message. You can identify email search results via page tag, add news ones manually, and even edit the message template directly from the editor.

The power of name recognition is real, so make sure every page, profile, and influencer who would be interested in your content has a chance to see it. It's why a distribution strategy is so important and it's the backbone of our product.

Update to Social Scheduling

We're obsessed with bleeding together social + content. We believe the two are no longer separate strategies to be managed individually. That's why we are constantly updating our social scheduling tools.

Now, schedule your Facebook + Twitter posts via two different tabs within the Entry Editor. This allows you to never have social as an afterthought and to customize your copy for each platform easily.

Upgrade to Lead Media

Say goodbye to the pop-up that used to appear when you inserted lead media. Now, when you add an image or video to the lead media section, the cropping tool won't appear at all. It will be cropped with face detection automatically, freeing you from the unwanted previous steps. If you want to crop it manually, you can click the cropping icon.

Suggested Facebook Targets

We've taken social sharing one step further. Now, you can connect with influencers in a flash. When you add a Facebook video from a URL, you will automatically see that Facebook video's author as a suggested Facebook target to tag + interact with.

Automated Mentioning

Mentioning the author is fast and simple, thanks to our automated mentioning tool. @mentioning doesn't even have to be typed in. You can simply click to @mention one of the targets we suggested, as shown above.

Multiple Select

If you multiple select several Facebook videos in the Add Media bar, the authors of those videos will show up as suggested targets in the scheduling tool. See it all in action in the video above. 👆

Seamless Publishing

See all the features in action.

Hey there — FYI: The reason we have so many frequent updates is pretty special. RebelMouse is a centralized CMS, so we push out multiple product updates to our site network every day. This is different from decentralized CMS solutions like WordPress, which require updates to be employed to all sites — all 87+ million of them — one by one.

Particle Assembler: Ads in Slideshows Now Supported

You can now insert ads between slides in a slideshow!

Monetizing users' engagement and page views is pivotal to most digital businesses, and our Particle Assembler has been an invaluable tool in helping RebelMouse clients to insert native ads seamlessly into their content. Now we've taken this functionality one step further by introducing support for ads between slides in Assembler's slideshow layout.

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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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Related Posts vs. Posts in Assembler

Here's the difference between Related Posts and Posts in Assembler.

By using Related Posts and Posts in Assembler, you can help your audience stay engaged with your site's content and generate more traffic. Both of these features can be added to any post through Entry Editor.

When creating or editing a post, you can add a Related Posts section to the bottom of it that consists of a selection of existing posts on your site that you choose to surface. Only the main image and content headline are pulled, along with a link to the original post. This is similar to the Around the Web section that also shows up at the end of your post when you enable it from the SEO tab of Entry Editor.

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