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Exporting classifieds via Gravity Forms

Exporting classifieds via Gravity Forms

In this walkthrough we will demonstrate a method for exporting classifieds submitted via a form on your website for import into Adobe InDesign and pagination. From your site’s dashboard go to Forms and then the sub-item Forms where you will see all those being used on the website. Here we have a Classified Order Form with the submitted entries. You can click on Entries to view the individual submissions. To […]

Building info boxes in the WordPress block editor

Building info boxes in the WordPress block editor

In this support session, Our-Hometown’s lead CSR Vera Lemonovich walks Emily Sachar of the Red Hook Daily Catch through building an info box as a sidebar within an article using the WordPress Block Editor. Topics covered include using the Columns block, adding colors, and article layout. Walkthrough Info boxes or callout content are great tools to lay out article content in such a way to make it stand apart from […]

Alexis Tackett – New Pine Plains Herald | OHT Publisher Interview

In this publisher interview the Our-Hometown team is joined by Alexis Tackett of the New Pine Plains Herald in New York. We hear about the onboarding process, website traffic, newsletters, and general feedback on features of the new website.

Manage where social share icons appear on your site

Manage where social share icons appear on your site

Social media icons can display across all of your website content allowing visitors to share stories or posts they engage with to their favorite social network or via email links. However you may not want this feature available on some content. The following is a brief walkthrough on how to manage where these icons appear via your admin dashboard. Firstly the social media share icons appear in two main places: […]

Will Brumleve – Ford County Chronicle | OHT Publisher Interview

Will Brumleve – Ford County Chronicle | OHT Publisher Interview

In this publisher interview Vera Lemonovich and Tyler Wood of the Our-Hometown team is joined by Will Brumleve of the Ford County Chronicle in Illinois. We hear about the onboarding process, paywall performance and revenue, ad network implementation, and general feedback on features of the new website. A few highlights: Tyler: What did you think of the onboarding process. How do you think that went? Will: The process was just […]

Announcing new SimpleCirc Integration, now in Beta!

Announcing new SimpleCirc Integration, now in Beta!

Publishers using SimpleCirc to manage print subscribers, rejoice! We are happy to announce that we’re currently testing a new integration that allows for automatic updating of customer accounts within SimpleCirc when subscriptions or renewals are purchased through your website. Our engineers have taken advantage of SimpleCirc’s API to send any new orders from MemberPress, with all relevant customer information, directly to SimpleCirc without any manual exporting, importing or copying of […]

Revenue Opportunities for Newspaper Podcasts | Webinar Replay

Revenue Opportunities for Newspaper Podcasts | Webinar Replay

In this live webinar replay, Our-Hometown CEO Matt Larson, is joined by Tyler Wood and Christopher Winders from the OHT team, in which they discuss the revenue opportunities in podcasting. From host-read and programmatic advertising, to new subscription tools on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, there have never been more ways to monetize audio. Matt also demonstrates some of the automated tools for generating audio from text content, including Audio Articles. […]

Online payment trends in 2022

Online payment trends in 2022

From Finances Online’s 51 Key Online Payment Software Statistics You Must Learn: 2022 Data Analysis & Market Share: “This year’s findings from McKinsey’s Digital Payments Consumer Survey revealed a prevailing trend: 4 in 5 Americans used some form of online payment system. The survey also reveals some new online payment method statistics trends, such as cryptocurrency and ‘buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) (Goel et al., 2021).” The Breakdown According to […]

Your Google Business Profile: Best Practices

Your Google Business Profile: Best Practices

Ninety percent of all search engine traffic goes through Google with its spiders crawling the web looking for the most relevant sites to display at the top of their results page. Since these searches get 60 percent of the clicks, earning a spot high on the first page of Google’s results nearly guarantees engagement. When someone searches for a local service, such as “newspaper in Salt Lake City, Utah,” Google […]

Keven Zepezauer of Restoration NewsMedia | OHT Publisher Interview

Keven Zepezauer of Restoration NewsMedia | OHT Publisher Interview

In this publisher interview the Our-Hometown team is joined by Keven Zepezauer, President and Publisher at Restoration NewsMedia in North Carolina. We hear about the onboarding process of multiple sites, as well as features customized for their needs, such as a source-based paywall, advanced newsletter design, print-digital subscription management via CircPro, and a new dark visual theme implementation.

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