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Preview draft story by subtype

When previewing a story in Ellipsis, the preview appears to show the basic article template. In our experience, it doesn't seem to take into consideration any assigned subtypes, which is how differentiate whether a story gets our basic or longform...

Created 19 Dec 01:42 by Amanda Baker

Composer / Templates

1 Future consideration
4 Vote

Show creator of an article (not only author)

Sometimes a text has no author because it's a wire story or something like that. Also (and sometimes even more important) for the internal use and workflow is the information, who created the story. In this case, our staff (the print team for exam...

Created 14 Dec 09:51 by Nils Oehlschläger

Composer / Authors/Creators

0 Future consideration
4 Vote

Make the general Ellipsis search field an "and" search instead of an "or" search

When I search more than one word in the generic search field at the top of the Ellipsis admin, the results will display stories that contain any of the words in the search field. This "or" logic makes it difficult to search for content in Ellipsis...

Created 04 Dec 15:29 by Guest

Composer / Story Search & Filtering

1 Future consideration
4 Vote

Ability to back date story publish dates to date/time in past

As a journalist I must have the capability to set the first publish date on a story to a date in the past so that I can "resurrect" stories from our archive and apply correct meta data.

Created 03 Dec 19:37 by Amanda Baker

Composer / Metadata

0 Future consideration
3 Vote

Do not close modal Custom Embed

When editing a custom embed, if the use clicks outside the modal, it will close it.Would it be possible to prevent this behavior ?

Created 04 May 07:10 by Guest

Composer / Embeds / PowerUps

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4 Vote

Add more special characters to the Special Character library

The Special Character library looks to be the same as Wordpress with the exception of: en space em space thin space and a few other 'space' ones. Can we update the library to be in sync with the one Wordpress uses? As a second step, the Washingt...

Created 25 Oct 16:13 by Guest

Composer / Compose Tab Editor

0 Future consideration
6 Vote

Enforce Typographically Correct Unicode Characters

In order to display articles beautifully, certain Unicode characters/sequences should be blocked in favor of alternatives: “ ” or ʺ for " " ‘ ’ or ʹ for ' ' … for ... – or — for -- © for (c) (Example)

Created 09 Sep 15:16 by Stuart Moore

Composer / ANS / Compose Tab Editor

4 Future consideration
2 Vote

Hide Sites from Composer

We have two sites, one with articles and one with only videos (Photocenter, Video Center and Page Builder). It would be interesting to be able to hide a site in Composer to prevent a writer from making a mistake when selecting the primary site in ...

Created 14 Oct 16:46 by Mauro Terrizzi

Composer / Circulations / Workflow & Publish

1 Future consideration
4 Vote

Redirect field should be editable before publishing

At the Washington Post, we have several workflows that use redirect stubs. It would be helpful if we could add the redirect before publishing.

Created 25 Sep 16:24 by Guest

Composer / URL

2 Future consideration
4 Vote

Allow text to be changed to Blockquote

Just like regular text can be changed to a list element or heading, text should be able to be changed to a blockquote and undone.

Created 14 Sep 20:26 by Guest

Composer / Compose Tab Editor

1 Future consideration