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17
Aug
Our-Hometown hosted another session of Office Hours on Monday, where CEO Matt Larson showed off our new Watermark plugin! This newly-rolled out feature allows you to easily protect your digital property with a super-imposed Watermark to prevent thieves from re-using your content without permission. It can be configured to automatically apply this watermark to all photos as they are uploaded to your Media Library, or you can manually apply the […]
10
Aug
Our-Hometown hosted another session of Office Hours on Monday, focusing this week on Scheduling Content to Go Live on WordPress. Rather than waking up in the early morning hours to publish all of the stories and PDFs from your new edition, you can prepare everything in advance and simply schedule these items to publish ahead of time. Our-Hometown CEO Matt Larson demonstrated this capability and more in this week’s session. We’re happy to share […]
10
Aug
Stop giving away your photos for free! Our-Hometown’s WordPress Publishing Platform includes a Watermark plugin that allows you to easily apply an overlay of your logo to any photos uploaded to your website, protecting them from would-be thieves who want to re-use the content for their own benefit. This feature is included free with all Our-Hometown websites! Once the plugin is enabled, the watermark you setup can be automatically applied […]
10
Aug
Our-Hometown’s latest Virtual Conference on Producing High Yield Content with Live Video Interviews took place this past Friday. In this presentation, Our-Hometown CEO Matt Larson highlighted the importance of being able to use a single piece of media to create multiple different pieces of content for your audience. One way to apply this strategy is to take a video interview conducted over video conferencing software such as Zoom or GoToMeeting and re-purpose […]
3
Aug
Our-Hometown CEO Matt Larson hosted another session of Office Hours yesterday afternoon, demonstrating the power of the Customize Tool available on all websites on Our-Hometown’s WordPress Publishing Platform. Watch and enjoy the full-length video replay below to learn how to customize your website using this incredible tool!
3
Aug
Our-Hometown will be hosting another Virtual Conference on Friday, August 21st at 12PM EDT on the topic of Rethinking Paywalls for Paid Print Newspapers. During the conference, Our-Hometown CEO Matt Larson will introduce the different paywall configurations available on our WordPress Publishing Platform and discuss how to incorporate each type into a strategy that works for your publication. We recently published a blog post detailing the different types of Paywalls offered on our websites, which […]
3
Aug
The National Newspaper Association’s 134th Annual Convention & Trade Show will be anything but conventional, with presenters and attendees from around the world congregating digitally via the remote conferencing software Zoom this October. Our-Hometown will be in attendance, and fortunately, as one of the industry pioneers of using virtual conferences during the pandemic, Our-Hometown’s CEO Matt Larson has plenty of experience with giving engaging and informative digital presentations! Matt will […]
3
Aug
Our-Hometown is excited to announce our upcoming Virtual Conference: Producing High Yield Content with Live Video Interviews. The COVID-19 shutdown has resulted in the unprecedented adoption of virtual collaboration tools for remote work, most notably video sharing software such as Zoom, GoToMeeting, and other similar alternatives. While we certainly wish the reason for the sudden need for remote conferencing was different, these tools are actually extremely useful for producing high-quality […]
2
Aug
One of the many benefits of using Our-Hometown’s WordPress Platform is that newspapers can schedule Articles and PDFs to publish at any time in the future. There is never any need to wake up early and manually update your website with the day’s new content. Instead, your staff can prepare an entire edition’s worth of stories and PDFs throughout the week and schedule them to go live at a specific time on […]
29
Jul
Our-Hometown recently released an update introducing several improvements to the Related Stories block, including a new panel of settings you can use to customize how the block appears on your website! The Related Stories block appears at the bottom of articles on Our-Hometown’s WordPress Platform and is a useful tool for transitioning readers from one article to another. If a visitor has clicked a link to read an article on your site, […]
