There are a wide range of changes and improvements across Radmin and the front-end this week, so listen up!
TODAY Drop-down Getting Some Changes
As with any change to the front-end functionality of your sites, we wanted to give you a heads up on this one before it goes live.Sometime in the next week, we will be removing “WEEKEND”, “WEEK”, and “MONTH” from the TODAY drop-down on your front page. “TODAY” and “TOMORROW” will remain, as will the calendar widget.
The problem is that WEEKEND, WEEK, and MONTH display a very limited number of Events without a lot of explanation for how these Events are picked. To a new user, it could appear that these are the only Event options on the site for the entire weekend -- undercutting your brand as the most comprehensive Events guide in the entire city.
These display options may return in the future with a more intuitive UI, but for now your Top Picks and other editorialized pages should suffice as “best of” lists of Events.
Improved Artist Creation Across Front-end and Radmin
The Dev team has been working on a number of tickets over the past week to improve the process of adding new Artists.Create Artists From Pending/Dupes Queues
Until recently, you could only add existing artists to an Event from the Pending and Dupes queue. If the show featured an Artist that wasn’t in our database, you would have to leave the queue to create the Artist and then come back to update the show.
Now you have the option to add a band that isn’t in the drop-down, and an Artist page will automatically be created for this new band. This is especially helpful when adding shows for small venues that host lots of local bands.
But be careful not to create duplicate pages for Artists that already exist!
Improved Front-end UI For Adding Artists
This one came to us from Courtney at Do512 via the DSD Queue. Do512 is organizing happy hours with local Austin bands to show them how to take advantage of their site, but wanted to make sure the front-end tools were as intuitive as possible.
We updated the New Artist form on the front-end (New Event > Add a New Artist) to hide fields for Flickr, Instagram, Myspace, and Tumblr, and add fields for the hometown, description, and Twitter handle.
This is more consistent with the info that gets displayed on the front-end, so bands know that what they enter here will have a direct effect on their Artist page.
Photo Bug Fixed For New Artists
There was a bug that wouldn’t save the attached photo for a new Artist. After pressing “Save” to create the new Artist page, you would inevitably find that the photo was missing and would have to be attached again. The same bug was affecting new Venue pages, as well.
Now when you attach a photo to a new Artist or Venue page the photo will save as expected -- across both Radmin and the front-end.
The Other Bits
Here are the other important updates to note this week:
- No more auto-voting for "Free" user: This shouldn't be new to anyone here, but we mention it since we removed the last remnant of Free user auto-voting from old Admin. Just to recap the new system, checking "Free?" on an Event in Radmin will add the "FREE" banner but you will still need to manually vote to add it to your Free list. This is so you have more editorial control over what Events show up in this list.
- Fixed HTML for repeating Events: There was a bug where repeating Events with different start/end dates would look completely crazy on the front-end. This is because the date abbreviations (e.g. 12/10) were screwing up the HTML. This is fixed so Events like happy hours that extend past midnight won't go haywire.
- Pending queue now sortable by start date: This was a much-requested feature since the launch of Radmin. Now, when working in the Pending queue you have the option to sort by date or by Popularity ranking.
Sexy product updates, thanks dev.
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