Release notes 3.29.0.

Good news everyone,  

the latest version of Sportal365 is here, and it introduces updates to the systems back end and front end.

Release 3.29.0 focuses on the upgrade of the technical documentation of our Content API, the filtering of categories, and on improving your SEO efforts, image watermarking, as well as a few more useful improvements.

 What’s new?

  • Filtering categories by Slug

  • Watermarking of old images

  • Alt text and image captions

  • Display of larger lists in Tags

  • Improvement to auto-tagging in Blocky

  • Improvement to Headings


Here are more details about the latest features and improvements:

An URL slug is the part of the URL after the last backslash. The slug is a keyword that helps Google crawl bots understand how to get to your page and confirms the content on it.

With release 3.29.0, we replace category ID in URLs with category slug i.e. you can search categories by slug. This is a great improvement to your SEO efforts and user experience. Before you had to add a category ID to the URL of your website to search a specific category; things just looked messy and counter intuitive.

Now, you can type in a slug (e.g. football) and search an entire category.

How does filtering categories by slug work?

When you change the slug in the URL of your website, you make a request to Sportal’s Content API to filter by slug all the content under a specific category. This initiates an exchange of information between our Content API and your back end to deliver to you all content under the desired category.

Bear in mind that the system will display on under a category on your website the type of content you tell it to (articles, videos, or galleries).

Note that the journey described on the image above is necessary because Articles are associated with category ID, not a category slug.

In a world dominated by images, it’s important for creators and companies to preserve authorship and exclusivity.

We recently unveiled watermarking to newly uploaded images, but now you can add watermarks to images already uploaded to Sportal365.

You can add watermarks to old images from: Images, Galleries, Articles and Videos.

Adding a watermark to old images

To add a watermark to an old image in Images:

  1. Go to Images → Select an image.

  2. When the Image update window opens, select Add watermarkSave.

To add a watermark to images in Galleries:

  1. Open Galleries → Select a gallery.

  2. Go to Items and add images to your gallery.

  3. Select the images you want to watermark.

  4. Select Add watermark.

5. When the pop-up window opens, select Add watermark.

Note that you can also remove the watermark from old images.

To add a watermark to an old image used in an Article (Video):

  1. Open Articles (Videos) → Select article (video).

  2. Select the image you want to add in Blocky.

3. In the Image properties section, select Add watermark.

We continue to improve your SEO efforts and now you can add image alternative text (Alt text) and image captions to images in your content.

You can do so from Images, as well as from Articles, Galleries and Videos.

The logic of adding and preserving an Alt text and caption to an image is organized from the general to the specific. This means that when you upload (or edit) pictures to Images, the Alt text and captions you add will be reflected in the articles, videos and galleries you use those images in.

Note that you can override the initial Alt text and caption you give to an image in Images, when you use that image in in an article, video or gallery.

Adding Alt text and caption from Images

To add alternative text and caption from Images:

  1. Open Images → Select an image.

  2. Select the editing tool to open the Image update window.

3. Fill in the fields and select Save.

To add alternative text and caption to an image from Blocky:

  1. Open Articles → Select an article.

  2. Add an image block → Select an image.

  3. When you select your image, type in the new alternative text and caption.

The improvement to auto-tagging is strictly cosmetic and of the user interface.

From now on, the auto-tagging suggestions in your articles, videos or galleries are now under the paragraph block and not on the right as before.

This is a seemingly tiny improvement, but a great step towards better access to your tags.

With this latest release, we add a Load more button at the bottom of your tag’s library, which will display all tags you have created.