Theme updates:

• Performance updates: https://github.com/bep/linodedocs/pull/57
  • Update JavaScript bundling method
  • Purge unused CSS rules
  • Defer loading weglot and trustarc
• Explore docs menu updates: https://github.com/bep/linodedocs/pull/38
  • Sort explore docs menu in browser (in particular, look at how the Product Docs Get Started, Guides, Resources, and Developer items are ordered in the same order as the tabs on the product doc's page)
  • Show Explore Docs menu on page load for home page and API pages
  • Clicking item name text in menu will also expand the tree at that point
• Add error message when JS is disabled in the browser: https://github.com/bep/linodedocs/pull/52
• Generate jpegs for list views of guides (list pages, home page carousels): https://github.com/bep/linodedocs/pull/54
• Load disqus comments on page loads when a comment's anchor link is present in the URL: https://github.com/bep/linodedocs/pull/49
• Remove <meta name="keywords">: https://github.com/bep/linodedocs/pull/48
• Make guide images click-to-expand: https://github.com/bep/linodedocs/pull/47
• Updates AlpineJS: https://github.com/bep/linodedocs/pull/60
• Fixes a search timing issue that could cause console errors: https://github.com/bep/linodedocs/pull/60
• Makes clicking on a title in the ToC update the browser's URL with the title's ID: https://github.com/bep/linodedocs/pull/60

Note that the Netlify preview for this will be missing thumbnails for images in the Guides carousel on the home page, because the production Algolia index has not been updated with them.

To see a working version of that feature in this branch, you'll need to test it locally with our instructions for using a personal testing Algolia.

Release checklist:

Before merging to main:

• Update the staging boxes to Hugo 0.79.0. Update: @nmelehan has done this
• Add ordinal to the Retrieved Attributes of these staging indices (Update: @nmelehan has done this)
  • linode-documentation-main-preview-nginx
  • linode-documentation-sorted-main-preview-nginx
  • linode-documentation-develop-preview-nginx
  • linode-documentation-sorted-develop-preview-nginx

Before cutting the hotfix release:

• Add ordinal to the Retrieved Attributes of these production indices (Update: @nmelehan has done this)
  • linode-documentation
  • linode-documentation-sorted
• Update the production boxes to Hugo 0.79.0. I have asked the dev ops team to do this. Update: Steven Jacobs has done this for us

Shortly after cutting the release:

1. Check to see if the site has built to the production web servers (visit each of them directly). You'll probably want to continuously check for this, because the timing on the next step should be quick, preferably
2. Ask @alertmybanjos to clear the CloudFlare cache once the site is available on both production boxes. This needs to be done because we currently have a bug where CloudFlare can cache a bad version of the newly-built javascript and CSS bundles, which we are working on.

If you'd like to run Google's Lighthouse test to measure the performance update, here's instructions: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse