Whether it’s a distinctive locale such as “Mackinac” (pronounced Mackinaw), or a local councilmember’s surname, this new capability allows you to make sure the audio output reflects your publication’s authentic voice.

What’s New

A new Pronunciations section is now available in the WordPress Dashboard. From this screen, editors can create custom entries for any word or phrase that might otherwise be mispronounced. Each entry lets you specify how the word should sound, either through a simple text alias or using phonetic notation. You can preview the pronunciation before saving, and options are available for handling case sensitivity and word boundaries.

Once saved, these rules are automatically applied whenever an Audio Article is generated on your site, ensuring consistency and accuracy across all future recordings.

Why It Matters

Local newspapers often include names that automated systems can’t easily recognize or pronounce correctly. This update allows you to preserve the character and credibility of your reporting by making sure these names are spoken the way your readers expect to hear them. The result is a smoother listening experience that better reflects the identity of your community.

How to Get Started

To begin using this feature, log in to your site’s WordPress Dashboard and open Audio Articles → Pronunciations. Click Add New Pronunciation, enter the word and its desired pronunciation, and preview the result. Once published, your pronunciation settings will take effect automatically the next time an Audio Article is created.

Example

In this example, the editor has entered:
Word: Mackinac
Alias text: Mackinaw

The audio system will now pronounce “Mackinac” correctly as “Mackinaw” in all future audio articles. To regenerate the audio version of an existing article, you will need to edit and update that article to trigger processing of the audio anew.

Using Phoneme Mode (IPA)

For advanced control, editors can switch to Phoneme (IPA) mode and specify pronunciations using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). This is especially useful when the standard alias text still doesn’t produce a natural result.

For example, instead of entering “Mackinaw” as a text alias, you could enter its phonetic equivalent:
/ˈmækɪnɔː/

Here are a few commonly used IPA symbols that may help with local or regional names:

This standardized approach can be a powerful option for sites serving multilingual audiences or regions with distinctive dialects. Here’s a downloadable chart from the IPA for reference.

Available Now

The custom pronunciation feature is available immediately for all customers using Audio Articles. We encourage you to try it out and refine your publication’s audio output for your local audience.

If you have any questions or would like assistance setting it up, please contact our support team at support@our-hometown.com.

Would you like me to create a shorter version (2–3 paragraphs) of this same announcement for inclusion in your customer newsletter or Mailchimp campaign?

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Many newsrooms are overwhelmed by the constant flow of press releases from civic and government organizations. Manually creating new posts and copying content is time-consuming and inefficient.

We’ve developed a powerful solution to streamline this workflow, so your team can focus on what matters: reporting. Our new Press Release workflow integrates an email-to-post plugin with a custom AI agent to automate the process from start to finish.

How it Works

Simply forward press release emails to a dedicated email address—or set up an automated rule to do it for you. The plugin instantly pulls the email content and any attachments (like images or documents) and synthesizes them into a new Press Release post on your site.

You have complete control over the final post, with options to:

• Automatically assign an author and category
• Set a featured image
• Determine the post status (e.g., set as Draft for review or Published immediately)

This AI-powered system integrates with OpenAI’s chat models, and the prompt can be customized to your specific needs, handling formatting and content inclusion or exclusion. With a bit of tuning, you can generate a publish-ready post with dramatically less effort, eliminating the need for constant manual work.

Getting Started

To get started, your team will need to provide us with an OpenAI API key and a unique email address to handle the forwarded press releases. You can then simply start forwarding Press Release emails to the new address and let the plugin do the rest!

If you are interested in trying this out for yourself, please reach out to us at ops@our-hometown.com.

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That’s why the team at Our-Hometown Web Publishing is thrilled to announce our latest, most-requested feature: Direct Video Uploads are now available on your WordPress website!

You can now bring your community’s stories to life and offer powerful new advertising solutions in a more dynamic and engaging way than ever before.

The Power of Video, Simplified

We believe that powerful tools should also be easy to use. We’ve integrated video uploads directly into the Media Library you already know. It’s as simple as uploading a photo.

Here are the key details:

• Generous File Size: Upload video files up to 256MB.
• Standard Formats: We support all the common formats you use, including .mp4, .mov, .webm, and more.
• Seamless Integration: Your uploaded videos can be placed into posts, pages, and even ad placements with ease.

NOTE: To ensure compatibility, always sanitize the filename of your videos: i.e. no special characters (/,?#) and also replace any spaces with either a dash or underscore.

From the Field to the Front Page: Go Mobile!

We know that news happens everywhere, not just at your desk. That’s why we’ve ensured our new video feature is completely mobile-ready.

Imagine this: you’re covering a last-minute press conference or a high school playoff game. You can capture a critical clip on your smartphone, open your website in your mobile browser, and upload the video directly into a new post. Your readers can see what’s happening, as it’s happening. No more waiting to get back to the office to transfer files.

Ideas to Get You Started

Not sure where to begin? Video is perfect for capturing the content that makes local news so special and opens up new revenue streams.

• High School Sports: Upload the game-winning touchdown, the three-point shot at the buzzer, or a post-game interview with the coach.
• Parades & Performances: Showcase the intricate float designs from the holiday parade, or a clip of the high school marching band’s new routine.
• Breaking News: Provide on-the-scene footage from a local event or incident, adding urgency and authenticity to your reporting.
• Nature & Wildlife: Share a serene video of a sunrise over a local landmark or capture footage of wildlife in a nearby park. These clips are highly shareable!
• Powerful Video Advertising: Offer premium advertising opportunities! A local realtor could run a video property walkthrough as part of their campaign, or a car dealership could showcase a new model in action. This is a fantastic new product to offer your advertisers.
• Community Voices: Record short “man-on-the-street” interviews about a local issue or a quick soundbite from a town council meeting.

Placing Your Videos: As Easy as 1-2-3

Once you’ve uploaded your video to the Media Library, how do you get it onto your site? We’ve made it simple by integrating it directly with the WordPress tools you already use.

• In an Article or Page: When writing a post, simply add a new block and search for the “Video” block. You can then select your clip directly from the Media Library.
• On Your Homepage or Sidebars: Want to feature a video more prominently? Use the Theme Customizer to add a video block to widget-ready areas, giving you full control over where your featured videos appear.

Ready to Roll?

This feature is now live for all Our-Hometown customers. We are committed to providing you with the tools you need to be the essential source for news and information in your community. We can’t wait to see the incredible stories you’ll tell and the new advertising opportunities you’ll create.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our support team at ops@our-hometown.com.

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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 about:

• Utilizing Grids: Discover how to construct dynamic image and text grids using the Grid block, including the application of column and row span settings for flexible designs.
• Organizing with Groups: Understand how Group blocks can be used to keep related content together and maintain structure within complex layouts.
• Beyond Standard Lists: Learn about the Details block as an alternative for presenting collapsible content, suitable for citations or expandable information.
• Refining Visuals with Covers: See how Cover blocks can be used to enhance the presentation and fit of individual elements within your grid layouts.
• The session also covered nested lists and the distinct functionalities of Rows and Stacks.

This webinar replay offers practical demonstrations and insights to help you create more sophisticated and visually appealing content in the Block Editor.

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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 then downloaded to your computer.

Extract this zip file and we are now ready for import into InDesign.

For this demo we’ll use an existing InDesign template with paragraph styles and basic layout guides in place. Note the styles specified in the export settings match those in the InDesign file, so they will be automatically applied when you add content into the document itself.

XML Import

With the InDesign file open, go to the File menu and click Import XML.

Select the XML file in the folder extracted from the zip file download.

Make sure the Show XML Import Options button is ticked as well as Merge Content.

On the import options window leave the defaults. Merging content will make sure that any updated XML content will be automatically reflected in the imported elements.

Once the XML is imported the Structure pane will appear to the left of your document containing the Root tag. Click the small arrow to the left of the tag to reveal the contents of the XML import.

Each story element contains the others: title, byline, body, image et al. plus any tag attributes, including character and paragraph styles.

Note that the character and paragraph styles included in the export will be created if these styles are not present in the InDesign file when you import the XML. However these styles will need to be configured as they will only have default settings in this scenario.

Structure Panel

Once the XML is imported the Structure pane will appear to the left of your document containing the Root tag. Click the small arrow to the left of the tag to reveal the contents of the XML import.

Each element or tag (we are using the term interchangeably) has an icon next to it indicating the type of content it references:

Container Element: A wrapper for grouping other element-types together

Text Element: A wrapper for text copy, i.e. paragraph tags similar to html

Image Element: A reference to the local image file downloaded as part of the XML export which links back to the folder extracted from the ZIP archive.

Drag and Drop Behavior

To bring content from the structure pane into the document layout, you simply drag the element either onto the layout itself or into a pre-existing frame in the layout.

Once an element has been placed in the layout a blue dot appears at the bottom-right of the icon.

Text Elements

For instance if you template already has a frame set up for the positioning of the Title element, simply drag that element from the structure pane onto that frame. If styles are setup properly, the Title style will be applied automatically.

If you don’t drop a text element into an existing frame, InDesign will create one, however the size of the text frame will usually follow the width of the dragged element, but its height will simply fill to the bottom margin from the spot of the drop.

Image Elements

Image elements, when dropped into a pre-existing frame will honor that frame’s fitting options, so this can be extremely helpful when placing images within your layout. If you simply drop an image element onto the layout, InDesign will create a frame matching the original resolution of the image (which can be quite large at screen preview levels). If the image is dropped within the page margins, the resulting frame will respect those while cropping those portions of the image. For predictable behavior we recommend dropping images into pre-existing frames with fitting already specified.

You will note the above example shows the Image element itself being placed, not the Graphic element. The Graphic element is a container for the image element and if present a text element for the Caption.

Container Elements

So what happens if you drag a container into the layout?

InDesign will insert all of the elements into a single frame while respecting the individual paragraph styles. The frame can then be adjusted to fit your layout. If Graphic elements are part of the container you are placing, InDesign imports the caption as a paragraph tag and includes the image as an anchored object attached to the caption. Additionally the image frame will be the same size as the resolution of the image as noted previously.

This often means that the images (which are included in the story container after the text elements) will not be displayed, but are hidden as they are part of the overset content that doesn’t not fit into the default frame size created when you drag a container into the layout.

Reassigning Elements

This brings us to another important point: Once an element has been placed, it cannot be ‘deleted’ per se, but it can be reassigned to another frame (or just dragged again into the layout).

This is very helpful if an image has been placed, but is hidden in overset limbo. You can drag those image/caption tags into new positions or move them to specific frames. This way you can drag the entire story element into the layout and then grab the images individually to place into frames with text wrapping, etc.

Importing XML Updates

A great feature of the Reverse Publishing plugin is that it keeps track of what has been exported, allowing you to only export content updated since the last export. You can also toggle off the image export, so that you can download just the updated XML content. Overwrite the previous XML file (by copying the new one to your existing archive folder with your images) and when you re-import the XML all the text content will update to reflect any changes to the story content.

We hope this post establishes the usefulness of a ‘digital-first’ strategy, allowing you to manage all your content on the website, and providing a straightforward pipeline for creating your print edition from that content.

If you have any questions or would like to try out Reverse Publishing, don’t hesitate to reach out to us at ops@our-hometown.com.

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Settings Page

• Notification Schedule
• Export all statuses
• Include Byline in Body
• Use Author for Empty Byline
• Alternative image export option
• Export only filename for images – removes image blocks
• Export image title for XML node

• Limit number of editions to view in export panel
• Send notification emails to
• Export Format
• Disable images on export
• Use image title as filename
• Use XML Ad Sheet
• FTP Backup Settings

Notification Schedule

Set the options for when to receive update emails (the destination email address is set below):

• On the export screen
• When articles are saved
• Every X minutes

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 be in it’s own XML tag or inserted at the top within the Body tag.

Use Author for Empty Byline

Toggle this on to use the Author field of an article if there is no Byline present.

Export Format

We are demonstrating the InDesign XML option in this walkthrough, but the NewsCycle NITF format is available for those who need it.

Disable images on export

Use this option if you would like to only download the text article content, i.e. just the XML file, if you would like to add images directly from your computer. This is good for instances where separate color management needs to be done for print services.

Use image title as filename

This option can be very useful if images in your media library have default camera-assigned filenames, such as IMG00034034.jpg.

Export only filename for images – removes image blocks

Images are included in the XML at the end of each story element. If this option is toggled OFF, images be wrapped in a paragraph tag similar to the option for including Bylines in the body tag. This can be useful if you will be using different or altered versions of images instead of those on the website.

</story-225816-body>
<graphic-driving-development-1>
<image href="file:///driving-development-1.jpg" />
<caption aid:cstyle="" aid:pstyle="Photo Caption RD">
 St. Ignace has not seen many high-capacity housing projects in recent decades, with the St. Ignace Senior Housing apartment complex on Lake Street remaining as one of the newer ones Thursday, April 24, 2025.
</caption>
</graphic-driving-development-1>

</story-225816-body>
<story-225816-image-placeholders><p>driving-development-1.jpg</p>
<p aid:cstyle="" aid:pstyle="Photo Caption RD"> St. Ignace has not seen many high-capacity housing projects in recent decades, with the St. Ignace Senior Housing apartment complex on Lake Street remaining as one of the newer ones Thursday, April 24, 2025.</p>

Export Page

• Edition
• Category
• Export
• Include Ads
• Include titles in article root
• Character Styles
• Paragraph Styles

Edition

Select the edition for export. A search field allows you to filter the list for convenience.

Category

Choose a single category from the selected edition for export.

Export

You can export all content from the selected edition/category or choose to only include changes since the last export.

Include Ads

If you are posting display ads (or they are extracted as part of our full-service process), these can be included in the export for layout along with the article content for the edition. Display ads themselves are not associated with a particular edition, so this option will include all currently running display ads on the site. Note these are NOT the ads managed by AdRotate Pro, i.e. manually placed banner and tile ads.

Include titles in article root

Toggle this options to include the article headline in each story tag in the exported XML.

<story-225816-Driving-Development>

<story-225816-title aid:cstyle="" aid:pstyle="Headline Sans RD">Driving Development</story-225816-title>

<story-225816>

<story-225816-title aid:cstyle="" aid:pstyle="Headline Sans RD">Driving Development</story-225816-title>

Text Styles

You can specify style attributes for the main elements that will be exported:

Character Styles are used less often, but allow you to target styles at the word or character level in your InDesign template. In this context it is still applied to the entire element (e.g. Heading), so we recommend using Paragraph styles in most situations.

Paragraph Styles should always be used as these styles are applied to the individual article elements.

For either style group, the name of a style supplied on the export page should match the corresponding style in your InDesign template by name. This ensures that when dragging content from the Structure panel, all relevant styles will be applied automatically.

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Readers can always control what notifications are being sent, plus a history of all notifications for reference.

Notifications do require the user to allow for browser notifications, and will be prompted when enabling the feature to accept the permissions update for the website. This will need to be done for each browser a reader may use, but once done the settings will persist until disable notifications or revoke the site permissions.

The appearance of the notifications is determined by the operating system and the browser being used, with some also offering an audible alert as well as the text alert.

News Notifications Dashboard

The Notifications Dashboard page in the Admin section of the website provides analytics on how many notifications have been sent as well as the click-through rate so you can assess the engagement of your readers.

Notification Settings

The Notification Settings page provides options for enabling notifications per category, each with it’s own schedule, plus the settings for Breaking News alerts.

Let’s take a look at these settings in detail.

Category Display

The first setting is whether you would like all category alerts to be grouped on the Notifications panel. If grouped the reader can subscribe to a “News Alerts” channel which will sign them up for all the category notifications (with individual schedules) that you have set up. Other wise with this setting toggled OFF, the reader can then subscribe to each category channel individually.

Select Categories

Tick the box next to any categories you would like to include in the Notifications Panel and you will be presented with scheduling options for each:

• Send instantly (on publication of new content)
• Send at Specific Times: Add as many time slots as you would like for notifications from this particular category. Click the Add Time button to specify additional notification times.

Breaking News

This feature provides the same scheduling options as categories, but for any article set to Breaking News when published, regardless of category.

Reach out to us at ops@our-hometown.com today, so we can assist you in getting this feature set up and increase reader engagement for your website!

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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 webinar, we covered a wide range of essential blocks and techniques, including:

• The Fundamentals: Mastering Headings, Paragraphs, and Lists, including their shared settings for color and typography.
• Layout Powerhouses: Using the Table block for structured data, the Details block for creating collapsible content (like FAQs), and the versatile Buttons block for calls to action.
• Advanced Options: Exploring inline images within text blocks, managing list levels and nested lists, styling tables and buttons, and using container blocks (like Group and Cover) for enhanced layout control.
• Legacy & Custom Content: A look at the Classic Editor block for older content and the Custom HTML block for embedding custom code or third-party widgets, plus a mention of the Shortcode block.

Christopher demonstrated practical examples for each block, showing how to transform blocks, adjust settings in the sidebar, and utilize the floating toolbar options. We also tackled common questions and explored workarounds for styling limitations.

This webinar is perfect for anyone looking to enhance their skills in the WordPress Block Editor and create more engaging, organized, and visually appealing text content on their website.

The recording includes chapters, making it easy to jump directly to the blocks or topics you’re most interested in.

Stay tuned for future webinars covering more aspects of the WordPress Block Editor and other helpful topics!

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Shared Style and Typography Settings

Settings for Styles (text and background colors) and Typography (Bold, Italic, etc.) are found in the right panel and are common to many text blocks:

The Color panel contains options for text color and background color/gradient for the individual block, allowing for quick styling of section headings, callouts, infoboxes, etc.

The Typography panel provides toggles to activate various additional text controls for Sizing, Appearance (various font weights for bold text), Letter Spacing, Decorations (strikethrough, underline) and Letter Case (all caps, etc.).

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Floating Toolbar Options

The floating toolbar contains options for block transformations, arrows for vertical ordering, text decorations, adding links to text and an additional options dropdown.

The additional options include inline insertions, and other less-used decorations, such as strikethrough, formatted code and sub/superscript.

The Inline Image option can be useful for inserting a small icon graphic directly in the text flow of a block:

The small image above has been placed inline between sentences in a single paragraph block.

Heading Block

The Heading block shares all the same styling and typography settings as other text blocks, with the addition of setting a specific Heading level to delineate structure in your article.

Paragraph Block

The style and typography settings for the Paragraph block share the same options as discussed previously, but with the addition of limited alternative font selection, and a Drop Cap toggle.

The floating toolbar offers the same options for alignment, decorations and links, although with specific transformations, allowing you to convert a paragraph into a heading or list, etc.

List Block

Use the List block to organize text in numbered or bulleted lists.

Style are typography options are the same as paragraph blocks.

The floating toolbar offers options for numbered vs. bulleted lists.

Note that this block is a container for individual List Item blocks.

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List Item Block

List items have a limited subset of styling options (only the text color can be changed), but the typography options are the same.

Additionally, the floating toolbar for a single List Item provides the same text options for text decoration and links, plus buttons for increasing or decreasing the list depth of an item.

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Ordered (Numbered) Lists

For Ordered Lists, the settings panel provides format options (Numbers, Upper / Lowercase Letters, or Upper / Lowercase Roman Numerals.

You can also specify a starting value if the list is a continuation of a previous one.

The order can also be reversed for a countdown-style list.

Table Block

Table creation has been limited to the tools in the Classic Paragraph block (similar to the classic article editor itself), however we now have a dedicated Table block with some customization and styling options, plus all the normal table editing tools one might expect: adding/deleting columns and rows, showing header and footer sections, creating striped row delineation and more.

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Table Block Settings

You have the option to tell the table to use “Fixed width table cells“, which means all columns will be equal in width rather than adapting the column widths to the content of the table.

The Header section and Footer section will each add an additional row to your table. The header section is typically used to add titles to the top of each row. The footer can be used to add an additional row at the bottom.

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Table Block Styles

There are two styles available for tables: Default and Stripes:

• The Default style has a plain background and borders around the cells.
• The Stripes style has alternating row background colors.
• The Color and Typography panels are identical to those in the Paragraph block settings.

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Table Block Toolbar

The floating toolbar for the Table block provides similar text options as other text blocks, but has an additional menu for editing the table itself: Inserting or deleting columns or rows. This behavior is very similar to other table editing operations in many common document editors.

Quote Block

The Quote block is similar to the List block in that it contains other blocks. The main difference is the citation toggle (indicated by the quill icon) for quote attribution. An inline image is attached to the citation text and the entire Quote block is right-aligned for a more engaging design.

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Pull Quote Block

The Pull Quote block offers additional styling options, such as a border with an adjustable radius. Notably the Pull Quote block doesn’t contain other blocks, it has just the two text fields for the quote and citation (although the example below is also using the inline image option for the headshot).

Details Block

The Details block is a block that allows you to include content hidden under a parent block with a text summary. This works like an accordion, with the text summary expanding to show nested content. This nested content, similar to other “container-style” blocks, can be anything you’d like. This block is often use for things such as FAQs, or directory-type listings.

For example:

Quote of the Day

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

Albert Einstein

Spacer Block

The Spacer block provides a resizable element that adds vertical space between other blocks. The size can be specified either in the settings panel or by dragging the circular handle at the bottom of the Spacer when it is selected.

Separator Block

Similar to adding a Horizontal Line in the Classic Editor, this block will add a simple line to delineate content in the flow of your article. There are options for line-style, thickness and color settings.

Buttons Block

You can add buttons to your website to create links to pages, products, or any other locations. Buttons help guide visitors to take action, such as signing up, purchasing, or learning more.

The Buttons block is similar to the List block in that it contains individual Button, each with separate styling options. Also the layout settings for a group of Buttons (the Buttons block) are very similar to the Row block, with vertical and horizontal justification, and the toggle to wrap the buttons onto additional rows depending on the width of the individual buttons.

The small + icon at the bottom left of the block highlight is used to add additional buttons to the Buttons block.

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Button Settings

 After you add the block you will be presented with a single button ready for text and styling.

The width of the button can be set as a percentage of the container using the Settings switches in the side panel, e.g. 50% will stretch the button to half the size of the available width.

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Button Styles

The style panel provides options for solid vs outline buttons, color settings, and a slider for adjusting the border radius, i.e. how round the corners of the button are. Note the border color will follow the color set for the text, while the background color will fill the button (regardless of the solid vs. outline setting. The Outline style only adds a border to the button with the text color.

The vertical and horizontal alignment of the buttons as well as the text alignment and decorations are all set in the floating toolbar.

You can even us the inline image option to add a graphic to your button:

Classic Block

The Classic block brings the legacy functionality of the Classic Editor into a single block in your content area. This allows for the use of established classic designs in your newer layouts integrating with other blocks as any other.

The block provides the same toolbar as the Classic editor, with the additional meta option to convert all content within the Classic block to individual content blocks, i.e. all paragraphs in the Classic block will become individual paragraph blocks after this process.

Custom HTML

The Custom HTML block is used most often for embeds that don’t have a native block. Depending on what plugins are installed you may have several blocks for embedding social media content, YouTube videos. etc. However this block will render any valid HTML code such as an iframe snippet from an online puzzle provide or even just a simple HTML design created in other software.

Play Sudoku online!

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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 live radar Map.

For the Hourly and 7-Day forecast entries, a button to the right of each will reveal further details for that particular timeframe.

The Map tab displays a live view with settings for the road/satellite view, plus layer toggles for various map overlays, such as precipitation, temperature, etc. and can even play through an animation of weather conditions.

A General Settings page provides options to toggle the default state (on or off) for many of these items as well as the default location and your API key for accessing the weather data.

The widget actually includes two separate widgets that can be used in the theme Customizer or simply in the Block Editor. One for a small heading display and one for the full widget.

Additionally, the widget can be accessed and placed via shortcode with options for the various display toggles and location settings.

If you are interested in adding the new OHT Weather Widget to your site, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at ops@our-hometown.com!

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