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Announcing an Enhanced Account Management Dashboard for Your Readers

We’re excited to share a significant upgrade to the Account Management Dashboard, rolling out across all our customer websites! This enhancement is designed to provide a more intuitive and streamlined experience for your readers when managing their online subscriptions, profiles, and preferences on your site. We understand the importance of a seamless user experience for your audience. Our goal with this update was to empower your readers with a cleaner, […]

Streamlined Subscriptions: Introducing Our Enhanced Checkout Experience

Streamlined Subscriptions: Introducing Our Enhanced Checkout Experience

In today’s fast-paced world, your phone is your go-to device for everything, including shopping. But we know that sometimes, completing a purchase on a small screen can be a hassle, with endless typing and fiddly forms. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce a significant upgrade to your website’s checkout process! While designed with your mobile users in mind, these improvements also enhance the experience on other devices. At Our-Hometown, we’re […]

Block Editor Basics: More Text, Plus Grids and Groups | OHT Webinar Replay

Block Editor Basics: More Text, Plus Grids and Groups | OHT Webinar Replay

Did you miss our recent webinar on advanced Block Editor layouts? The replay is now available. Our session, “Block Editor Basics: More Text, Plus Grids & Groups,” explored how to create sophisticated content arrangements directly within WordPress. Christopher from Our-Hometown guided attendees through leveraging the Block Editor’s powerful layout tools. If you weren’t able to join us live, this is an opportunity to review the key techniques. In this replay, you’ll learn […]

Block Editor Overview: More Text, Plus Grids and Groups on June 13th, 11AM EST

Block Editor Overview: More Text, Plus Grids and Groups on June 13th, 11AM EST

Our-Hometown customers are invited to join us tomorrow, June 13th at 11am EST as we continue the Block Editor Overview live webinar series with a presentation focused on More Text Layouts plus using Grid and Group Blocks. One of the most powerful aspects of the Block Editor is the ability to use multiple different types of blocks together to create a more dynamic final product without the need to learn how to code or design pages […]

Reverse Publishing: Import Your Content Into InDesign

Reverse Publishing: Import Your Content Into InDesign

XML Export Once you have applied your desired settings for the Reverse Publishing export, you can then choose what content is to be included, either via the Export page or through selecting and exporting articles with the Bulk Edit option in the All Articles List. The plugin will compile a ZIP archive including the XML file with all the article content and individual images associated with each story that is […]

Reverse Publishing: Setting Up Your First Export

Reverse Publishing: Setting Up Your First Export

Settings Page Notification Schedule Set the options for when to receive update emails (the destination email address is set below): Export all statuses This toggle will make available articles of any status (draft, scheduled, etc.) for export, instead of being limited to published content. Include Byline in Body Depending on how your InDesign template is built, this option allows for the inclusion of the Byline field from an article to […]

News Notifications Now Available For Your Readers

News Notifications Now Available For Your Readers

The Our-Hometown engineering team has released a Browser Notifications feature for the platform. With this your readers can subscribe to multiple alert channels for timely push notifications directly from their browser. They can sign up for specific category updates (per publisher settings) and breaking news alerts. All this is presented in a simple side panel that can be accessed by a new Bell icon in the Main Navigation area. Readers […]

Block Editor Basics: Creating Text Layouts | OHT Webinar Replay

Block Editor Basics: Creating Text Layouts | OHT Webinar Replay

We recently hosted a live webinar diving deep into the world of text-focused blocks within the WordPress Block Editor. Led by Christopher, with assistance from Vera and Tyler, the session explored how to go beyond basic paragraphs and headings to create dynamic and well-structured text layouts for your website content. If you missed the live session, or want to revisit specific sections, the full recording is now available! During the […]

Creative Text Layouts in the Block Editor

Creative Text Layouts in the Block Editor

In this post we’ll be covering the basic blocks for handling text content as well as how to combine these blocks with others to build engaging and creative designs.

Introducing Our-Hometown’s Fully-Featured Weather Widget

Introducing Our-Hometown’s Fully-Featured Weather Widget

Our engineering team has been hard at work creating a new fully-featured weather widget for use on our customer websites. The widget features a header displaying current conditions and today’s forecast. Below the header you can toggle a section to display periodic Special Weather Statements from the National Weather Service. The main portion of the widget is dedicated to tabs that provide Hourly and 7-Day forecasts, as well as a […]

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