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17
Dec
We’re grateful to the Illinois Press Association for their invitation to present some creative options for print and online publishers to help increase and retain a solid subscriber base. For 23 years, our publishers have brought us countless ideas and depended on us to provide practical solutions to help them not only manage but also to control the ever-changing world of digital news and online revenue. Matt Larson, president and […]
15
Dec
After last week’s mandatory password reset announcement, we thought it would be an opportune time to share some general tips for keeping your online accounts safe from hackers and criminals. Hackers commonly use two methods to break into online accounts: a.) guessing the password using a list of commonly used passwords, or b.) using information that was obtained from a previous data breach and has since been published on the […]
10
Dec
During this week’s episode of Office Hours, Our-Hometown President and CEO Matt Larson, along with support specialists Teri McLaren and Vera Lemonovich, addressed some of the common questions and feedback we received after Tuesday’s announcement that we will be requiring all newspaper staff members to change their account passwords on our platform. Check out the video below to watch Matt talk about this password reset, or keep scrolling to read some […]
8
Dec
Our-Hometown is excited to announce that President & CEO Matthew Larson will be presenting for the Iowa Newspaper Association in an upcoming live webinar on December 18th, beginning at 1PM EST! During his live session, Matthew will be reviewing several of the most popular paywall models and configurations among news publishers on Our-Hometown’s WordPress Publishing Platform, and will detail the differences between a Hard Paywall, a Soft Paywall, and a Registration Wall as well as […]
8
Dec
Attention Publishers, Our-Hometown will be requiring all publishers and other newspaper staff to change their passwords beginning on Thursday, December 10th as part of a routine system-wide security enhancement process. This mandatory password change will be required for any Users that exist on your website with a role other than Subscriber, or in other words, any user with the ability to edit and publish content or otherwise customize the website. […]
1
Dec
A recent update for the GravityForms plugin that comes included with Our-Hometown’s WordPress Publishing Platform has introduced a more secure way of connecting and communicating with the online payment gateway, Stripe. As a result, customers who utilize the Stripe payment gateway for things like Classified orders, Donation forms, and any other paid submission form will see a message on the dashboard reading: “You are currently logged in to Stripe using a […]
23
Nov
At Our-Hometown, we’ve continually emphasized the importance of creating a digital product that can continue to grow and thrive, even should the traditional print newspaper ever go out of fashion. The COVID-19 pandemic put the spotlight on this issue earlier this year as many publishers faced issues with printing and distributing during quarantine, but the shift to mobile web browsing has been a steady trend for over a decade now. […]
23
Nov
Last Thursday between 10:00 and 10:25 PM EST, Our-Hometown engineers performed an update to our Matomo stats server. This update required temporarily disabling the tracking of website statistics to avoid any conflicts during the update process. You may see gaps in your Matomo reports where data was not recorded during this brief period. We do apologize for any inconvenience. The database update was successful and all stat tracking is back […]
16
Nov
Our-Hometown’s latest Virtual Conference on Increasing Digital Subscriptions took place this past Friday. President & CEO Matt Larson hosted once again, giving an informative presentation where he introduced attendees to a number of strategies used on our platform to help drive digital subscriptions. These techniques include ways to advertise your website in the print edition and how to keep readers on-site once they’ve arrived. Matt also discussed the benefits of using auto-renewing […]
16
Nov
Attention, Our-Hometown customers! Thanksgiving is a week from Thursday, and although everyone could use a break after the long and difficult year we’ve had, we know that the news cycle doesn’t stop for holidays! However, we need your help to make sure that we have the resources available to handle any holiday-related requests such as early publishes, late publishes, or extra special sections that need to be posted online next […]
