rewriteLegacyImageUrlsInHtml only swapped URLs that had a mapping in
legacy-image-map.json — anything missing the map was left pointing at
the dead https://www.broadcastbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/ host (404
in browsers, bad for SEO, broken-image icons everywhere).
New stripDeadLegacyImages() pass runs after the rewrite and removes:
- <figure> blocks whose only inner image is a dead WP image
- <a> wrappers around dead images
- Bare <img dead> tags
- Empty <figure> leftovers
…leaving body copy intact and figcaption-less.
cleanLegacyImages() is the one-call helper that pipes both steps.
Applied via rowToArticle so every /news/<slug> render gets it.
Feature 3 — forum auto-linking
Thread + reply bodies in /forum/thread/[id] now wrap company-name
mentions with /manufacturers/<slug> links via a new client-side
LinkifyPlainText component. Loads the directory list once per page
(module-level promise cache), regex-scans each body, preserves
whitespace, caps at 10 links per body to avoid clutter.
CompanyMentionsHover mounted on the page so the same preview card
pops on hover.
Adds /api/public/companies/list — minimal { name, slug } directory
feed, cached 10min.
Feature 4 — /nab-2026 live coverage hub
New page aggregating every directory company with exhibits_nab=true.
Three sections:
- Coverage Partners — active advertisers exhibiting at NAB, larger
tiles with emerald Sponsor border
- Latest from the show floor — last 60 days of articles with NAB
in the title, cinematic grid
- All NAB 2026 exhibitors — alphabetical, capped at 200 with link
to full /manufacturers directory
Every company tile carries data-company-slug for hover previews.
Feature 5b — Sponsor logo strip on homepage
New SponsorLogoStrip server component renders just above the footer
on the homepage, showing logos of every current banner advertiser
with a directory entry + logo. Each links to the manufacturer
profile with the hover-card slug attribute.
Feature 5c — Recent coverage on manufacturer profiles
/manufacturers/[slug] now includes a grid of the 6 most recent
articles matching the company name in the title, with thumbnails.
Renames the existing manufacturer_id-linked block to "Press
releases" since it's a separate data source.
Feature 1 — sidebar
Adds a "Companies in this story" panel on every news article that
surfaces every directory company my linker matched in the body. Each
tile shows logo, name, Sponsor / NAB 26 / IBC badges, and a one-sentence
bio. Tiles link to /manufacturers/<slug> and carry data-company-slug so
the global hover card pops on hover too.
Extends company-mentions.ts with linkifyAndExtractMentions() that
returns both the linked HTML and the ordered list of matched slugs in
one pass, so /news/[slug] doesn't re-scan the body for the sidebar.
Feature 2 — unified typeahead
/api/search/suggest now returns { companies, items } — companies are
matched against bb.tracked_companies (directory_visible=true), capped
at 6, ordered by featured → mention_count, then bumped if they're an
active advertiser on broadcastbeat (adv schema lookup).
Header search dropdown renders a "Companies" section at the top with
logo, name, Sponsor badge (active advertiser) or NAB 26 badge, above
the existing "Stories" results. Each company link carries
data-company-slug so the hover card works in the dropdown too.
When an article body is rendered, scan it for any company name in
bb.tracked_companies (directory_visible=true) and wrap the first
mention of each company in
<a class="company-mention" data-company-slug="...">Name</a>
linking to /manufacturers/<slug>. Caps at 12 mentions per article so
heavy press-release lists don't get visually noisy.
Match rules:
- Word-boundary, case-insensitive
- Skips text already inside <a>, <script>, <style>, code/pre/headings
- Skips any element with data-no-autolink="true"
- Longest name wins on overlap (Sony Pictures beats Sony)
- One link per company per article (first occurrence)
Hover behavior: a new CompanyMentionsHover client component mounts once
per article page, listens globally for [data-company-slug] hovers, and
pops a floating card showing logo, name, 2-sentence bio, sponsor/NAB/IBC
badges, HQ city, 3 recent stories, and links to the full profile +
external website. Preview data fetched from new endpoint
/api/public/companies/[slug]/preview
with a client-side cache keyed by slug.
Includes non-advertisers — any visible directory entry gets linked,
which is the point. If a company is *also* a current banner advertiser
on broadcastbeat, the hover card adds a green "Sponsor" badge.
Styling: dotted underline that becomes solid on hover, slightly bolder
weight, accent color on hover. Subtle so multi-mention paragraphs don't
look like a link-soup.
Three-tier sort on the Industry News feed:
1. Premium — articles pinned via adv.featured_story_slots (paid slots).
Sorted by position ascending. Highlighted with an amber left-border
gradient + ★ Featured ribbon.
2. Advertiser — articles whose title contains the company name of a
current active banner advertiser on this property, AND were published
in the last 48 hours. Highlighted with a blue left-border gradient
+ ◆ Advertiser ribbon. Multiple matches ordered by publish date.
3. General — everything else, newest first.
After 48h, advertiser stories naturally drop back into the general
tier. Premium slots fall off when their ends_at passes.
Detection is title-only with case-insensitive word-boundary match; the
longest matching company name wins so "Sony Pictures" beats "Sony"
when both advertise. Backed by the new adv.active_advertisers_by_
property view.
createAdminClient() now accepts an optional schema arg so we can hit
adv from BB without juggling clients.
API revalidate dropped 300 → 60s so the feed reflects campaign flips
within a minute.
Renders bb.manufacturer_executives rows as a card grid (photo, name,
title, bio excerpt, LinkedIn link). Adds a Headquarters section with
the street-level hq_address + phone (tel: link) + contact email. Bio
text is now whitespace-preserving so multi-paragraph copy from the
admin editor renders correctly.
Was linking to /news?category=Featured which silently fell back to the
unfiltered /news listing because "Featured" isn't in CATEGORIES and the
filter is tag-based, not category-column-based.
Adds getLegacyFeaturedArticles() that mirrors FeaturedBento's query
(category ILIKE 'featured', featured-flag-first sort) at limit 200, and
a thin /news/featured route that reuses NewsPageClient.
Problem: /admin/* pages redirect unauthed users to /login or /account,
both of which then hit middleware redirecting to distribute.relevant
mediaproperties.com. Distribute is on a different domain, so its session
cookie doesn't carry to broadcastbeat.com — sign-in there left admins
stranded on distribute's dashboard.
Fix:
- Remove /login (and /register) from middleware REDIRECT_PATHS. wp-login,
wp-admin, client-login still bounce to distribute.
- /login is now a real BB sign-in form (was a redirect to /client-login).
- Admin pages preserve return path via /login?next=<encoded path>.
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New public routes:
/manufacturers - searchable index, filter by show + first letter
/manufacturers/[slug] - profile page with bio, categories, trade shows, news, JSON-LD
Data sourced from bb.tracked_companies + bb.trade_show_exhibitors,
seeded from the NAB Show 2026 Map Your Show exhibitor list.
Adds schema extensions on bb.tracked_companies (slug, logo_url, bio,
contact, social handles, press_url, ad_status, exhibits_nab/ibc) and
bb.press_releases (manufacturer_id FK, source_url, published_at, status).
Each profile page emits Organization JSON-LD for SEO + canonical URL.
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- Homepage / Industry News query filters wp_imported_posts to
ai_rewritten_at IS NOT NULL so raw press releases never surface on
the editorial feed (NewsArticle JSON-LD was already in place).
- New /news-sitemap.xml route emits a Google News sitemap covering
rewritten editorial published in the last 48 hours, with
news:publication + news:publication_date + news:title + keywords.
- robots.ts now points crawlers at both sitemap.xml and
news-sitemap.xml.
After deploy, submit broadcastbeat.com to Google News Publisher Center
to start serving in News.
Fires one impression per page render, per slot, server-side — mirrors
AdSanity's WP-level counting model. Picks one banner from each slot's
rotation pool per request. Edge-worker-cached pool refresh, 5min TTL.
Closes the structural gap with historical AdSanity numbers
(client-side counting was dropping 25-40% to ad blockers, plus the
beacon failed silently on fast navigations).
gear, technology, search, reading-list, show-coverage, authors/[slug],
forum/thread/[id] all now render the 300x600 + 300x250 stack as a
floating right column at the top of the content area. Existing
single-column page structure preserved (content wraps).
Maximizes impression count: every pageview across these pages now
counts 300x600 + every 300x250 in the stack, on top of the existing
728x90 in Header.
When multiple profiles share a display_name (Michael Carter, Alex
Rivera, etc.), .maybeSingle() blew up with PGRST116, returning 404.
Switched to ordered limit(1) so the earliest-created profile wins
and the route resolves deterministically.
Adds a neon-green horizontal line across the very top of the site,
spanning from the left vertical rail to the right vertical rail, so
the header reads as a closed bracket instead of two floating lines.
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The sticky main nav at z-50 was painting its background over the
z-5 rails, so the line only showed on the top bar. Bumped rails to
z-60 (above the sticky stacking context) and widened to 2px with
stronger glow so the bracket reads continuously.
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