Thursday, November 21, 2013

User Description Update

To our Content Connoisseurs:

We recently made a change to the way user/Promo User descriptions work and want to clarify in case you come across anything strange on your user pages.

We removed the ability for ANY user to show HTML/JS or special code input in their description (for security reasons on your new site).  If you have a regular user page and the description has any code, it will simply show up on your site as code rather than centered text in fancy colors, etc.
To fix these special pages, simply take the following steps:
  1. Open the user page to "edit"
  2. Check "Promo User"
  3. Copy the code in the "Description" field to the "New Promo Descr." field
For your Promo Users that had their descriptions in the "Description" field, we automatically copied their descriptions to the "New Promo Descr." field for you.

You may notice that some of your Promo User pages on your new site that did not previously show images in the description over the hero image now do.  For example: http://newstuff.do512.com/TribezaAustin

We had been hiding any image in the descriptions as we transitioned to the new site, but now have unhidden them for the cases when you want to include images over the hero.  You can simply remove these from the "New Promo Descr." field as you find them if you don't want them to show.

Hope that explanation makes sense! Here are the cliff notes just in case:
  • Only Promo Users can have specially coded descriptions
  • Those descriptions MUST be included in the "New Promo Descr." field
  • Some of your promo users have images in their "New Promo Descr." that we have unhidden and you may want to remove

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

User Description Update

To our Content Connoisseurs:

We recently made a change to the way user/Promo User descriptions work and want to clarify in case you come across anything strange on your user pages.

We removed the ability for ANY user to show HTML/JS or special code input in their description (for security reasons on your new site).  If you have a regular user page and the description has any code, it will simply show up on your site as code rather than centered text in fancy colors, etc.
To fix these special pages, simply take the following steps:
  1. Open the user page to "edit"
  2. Check "Promo User"
  3. Copy the code in the "Description" field to the "New Promo Descr." field
For your Promo Users that had their descriptions in the "Description" field, we automatically copied their descriptions to the "New Promo Descr." field for you.

You may notice that some of your Promo User pages on your new site that did not previously show images in the description over the hero image now do.  For example: http://newstuff.do512.com/TribezaAustin

We had been hiding any image in the descriptions as we transitioned to the new site, but now have unhidden them for the cases when you want to include images over the hero.  You can simply remove these from the "New Promo Descr." field as you find them if you don't want them to show.

Hope that explanation makes sense! Here are the cliff notes just in case:
  • Only Promo Users can have specially coded descriptions
  • Those descriptions MUST be included in the "New Promo Descr." field
  • Some of your promo users have images in their "New Promo Descr." that we have unhidden and you may want to remove

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