E51 Posts by Category

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One page about posts overview (incl. post status). This includes counting posts. This is similar to menu P10: Posts Overview. “Check Posts” and Private Posts. Make sense to have private posts inside “Check Posts/Post Overview”, that one category is marked as “Private”

 

 

Explanation
Video and Pics

Check Posts by Category

Trello Regular Task Testing Ecoblogs

 

In WP Dashboard? Effort
Regular Category page

  • Go into the blog and open the category
  • See how many new posts are published in our website in the last 24 hours, 30 days…
yes

 

 

Count Posts

This functionality is responsible for weekly activity on checking what happens with the feeds. We count and show the total and average posts for last 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days and 3 months. So we know if the blog is still active.

 

 

 

Excerpt

  • Check if the excerpt is taken or it is empty for this category
No Problem: We do not have original excerpt.
Featured Image

Check if the featured image is there or it is empty for this category. Go through archives for this category

 

No 3h, Check for each posts (number posts?) iif featured image
Featured Pic set on the archive page? No No needed, if the first is ready
Tags:
Test if the posts of this category has tags No Case 1) Category has posts with tags
—> Do not investigate
Case2) Category posts without tags
–> Investigate if original has tags

 

 

URL
Test if the posts of this category contain stop words
Yes when you open the test article, you can see this
Related Posts:
Test if related Posts of this category are in same category or somewhere else. No Not possible
If somewhere else, then check what the criteria are. No

 

 

 

Private Category

In private category section we can easily set posts from certain author to be private, public or draft. It is easy configurable what to be shown here and what action about the status to be executed.

Private posts
Private posts

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Ecoblogs Testing: Posts Overview and Post Text: Count Characters
(no trello card)Summary:This video explains the two tests:

  • Count Posts in Archive
  • Compare Posts One-to-One: Count Characters

You can also count the number of characters for a post with tools on the internet.

Ecoblogs Part2 Author problems

Trello Regular Task Update Author Table

Regular Authors check

  • E43 – E49 doc pages (links are in Description) are our testing pages
  • Foreach blog, if bug happend, we must write in the table on E43 – E49
  • We must go in every single author (category page) and browse their posts for last 24 hours
  • Latest update of the page is the new column added for testing “New posts our and original for 24h”
  • Open links from Test Authors column and “Original Archive” (from Original Archive & RSS column
  • Write the results into “New posts our and original for 24h” column
  • Compare our Posts (which are loaded) with their Posts
  • For bugs see How to report bugs

Stop Words

  • Are stop Words removed? quick check on 3 posts per site –> Must Fix!

Posts Count

Using WP Dashboard this task is fully automated now.

More information about WP Dashboard here.

Posts CountOnce every 2 months: count number of articles for all feeds.

For all ecoblogs sites go to our overview

Click on first column: /adam-Smith –> Our Posts, count how many posts we have

Click on second column: Adam Smith Institute –> Their posts, count how many posts they have.

Count minimum 30 posts.

Posts count
Posts count

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Make Posts Private

Using WP Dashboard this task is fully automated now.

More information about WP Dashboard here.

Macro.ecoblogs

Trello Regular Task Ritholtz, Big Picture

Regular Check:

  • This is part of Macro blog
  • Go into this url: https://macro.economicblogs.org/niko/edit.php?s&post_status=all&post_type=post&action=-1&m=0&cat=312&seo_filter&readability_filter&filter_action=Filter&paged=1&action2=-1
  • or if the link not works go to All posts
  • In the top right corner choose “Screen options”
  • Then choose how many posts per page to be shown (good number is 100)
  • Filter the posts from category Ritholtz, Big Picture
  • Mark all of them and on quick edit menu choose edit
  • Set them all to Private and hit Save
  • Test in frontend if it really works

The Big Picture Category
The Big Picture Category

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European.ecoblogs

Trello Regular Task The Economist

Make Posts Private

  • This is part of European blog
  • Go into this url: https://european.economicblogs.org/niko/edit.php?s&post_status=all&post_type=post&action=-1&m=0&cat=301&seo_filter&readability_filter&filter_action=Filter&paged=1&action2=-1
  • or if the link not works go to All posts
  • In the top right corner choose “Screen options”
  • Then choose how many posts per page to be shown (good number is 100)
  • Filter the posts from category The Economist Category
  • Mark all of them and on quick edit menu choose edit
  • Set them all to Private and hit Save
  • Test in frontend if it really works

 

How to report Bugs

Checklists in Testing Ecoblogs

(no trello card)

This video explain how to report bug, where to write new bugs.

  • Put in red when missing posts
  • Problem RSS: does not work any more –> Look for new site, new RSS when 1-2 months no new posts, create card in Latest Sprint
  • Other problems like missing posts: Write in Red in last columns

Reporting a Bug
Reporting a Bug

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Filling Bugs

Economic Blogs Checks Part 1

Trello Regular Task Testing Ecoblogs

Regular Checks

  • Go trough all “Regular: xxx” checklists into this card for every single blog
  • !! Must be done for every single blog
  • For every blog, you must update and fill up the table with the result
  • If there is new bug, write (new) and mark it in red
  • The rest needed data (like post number etc) must be updated on every check

See more for E5x Syndicated Blogs Testing