Latest updates are live

Posted on by Petteri Hemmilä

Hi there! The latest update went actually pretty well and there’s even some new (and highly requested) stuff available.

Here’s the rundown:

AddToAny Share Buttons

A very useful plugin that allows you to add social media sharing buttons to your blog.  You’ll need to activate and set up the plugin via “Plugins” screen before using. The share buttons can be added/removed by editing a single page or by adding them as Widgets (“Appearance” -> “Widgets”).

Oh, and before you ask – Instagram does not allow sharing from external sources (although you can setup a “follow me at Instagram” button via Widgets menu).

Open Graph and Twitter Tags

Sounds way more technical than it should, but this is actually for editing social media preview. Activate and setup via “Plugins” screen. The general setup screen is harrowing, but the process of managing preview of a single page/post is very straightfoward. Just upload an image and write some nice words.
Pro tip: you can use Facebook debugger to preview your changes before making any posts: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ .

Beehive Pro

An analytics plugin that supports both Google Universal Analytics and Google Analytics 4. Activation process is a bit too complex to describe in a single post, but I did write some instructions: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/?page_id=568

Cookiebot Cookie Consent

Can’t have analytics without letting people to opt-out. Appears automatically, doesn’t require anything. If you want to review all the 100+ cookies on the site or revise your consent, you can do that here: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/cookiebot.html .

WP Table Builder

A tool for building rather fancy tables. Must be activated via “Plugins” menu.

Other plugins and fixes

There are also Zero Spam anti-spam plugin and Multisite Custom CSS (which I wouldn’t necessary recommend activating, unless you know your way around CSS).

We also switched the Apache web server to NGINX and fixed some stuff around file access rights. This means essentially better performance, working embedded videos for Mac and iOS users + capability to install new plugins without breaking everything.

That’s pretty much it. Have a nice weekend everyone!