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So exciting, right? I went through my dev site first thing in the morning after this release went out and changed all my slideshows to "has preview" and then changed all my story list blocks to "not children" and removed the "asset: article" restriction.

Also, consider a layout where you have several assets at the top that have images in a big display, and then a list of headlines below that for the ones that don't have previews. (i.e. split up the news between items with a preview and those without). For a Calendar page or something, this would be awesome.
Hi Maunette!

The author needs to have a user account, be assigned to the story as "author," and the account should be filled out with their avatar, bio, etc. If they fill out their Twitter and Facebook, those will show up as well. 

Then, of course, you need the "presentation" mode set to "personality."
We are doing a "core" update to fix this (subscription_bypass on Touch 5) in our next template release. Sometimes we will customize templates temporarily on a site to fix an issue in a shorter time frame if we have the fix ready. It's a nice way to be able to fix issues that customers care about while also maintaining our release cycles.
Hi Craig!

I went through some of our example sites (such as m.showcase.bloxcms.com) and some other customer sites, and I didn't see this happening there - though I was able to reproduce it on your site.

At first glance, it looks like something on the page (most likely your DFP ads, if I had to guess) is re-writing the DOM after it is loaded.

If you want to submit a Customer Support ticket, we can have someone look at it more closely.
Hi guys!

We are still looking at something like this, but given the timeframe, I can tell you that it won't be for this year. I will update you as soon as this hits our official roadmap. =)

Christine
Hi Craig!

Yes... you can add email as a value in either the destination or source options of an individual job. This way, different people can receive notifications for different jobs.

So:

email = cmasters@townnews.com

You can also use:

log_level = value

With a possible value of: 'progress','debug','notice','warning', 'error','fatal' and 'info'
Yeah it seems to be one of those relatively inconsistent things where Google is doing something we don't really understand. They say they "sometimes pair relevant images with articles from different sources" but they don't say how often or when, or if this can be influenced.
Hi Craig!

Here is the Google News help page, which says that if you don't have a related image (that meets their requirements) they will sometimes help you out by adding one from somewhere else:

https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/1...

"Please keep in mind that in order to show as many different sources to our users as possible, we sometimes pair relevant images with articles from different sources."

So, it doesn't look like much can be done other than to try to have images with all of your main stories.

I had thought that setting an og_image setting would help, but you have that already, so clearly Google News won't use that.