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Newsletter - - Page 7
![Webinar Interview with VPA Directors on the Digital Initiative | July 28, 2022 [Replay]](https://our-hometown.com/wp-content/uploads/vpa-directors-interview-1-960x540.png "Webinar Interview with VPA Directors on the Digital Initiative | July 28, 2022 [Replay]")
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Jul
Our-Hometown is excited to present this WEBINAR INTERVIEW with the Directors of the Virginia Press Association — the innovators of the original Digital Initiative program! The event was recorded on Thursday, July 28th at 2PM Eastern. Our-Hometown President & CEO Matthew Larson is joined by the Directors of the Virginia Press Association to discuss the ins-and-outs of the Digital Initiative program: how the idea started, what prompted the VPA to […]
6
Jul
Our-Hometown is happy to welcome The Rappahannock Times to our platform as the latest publication to launch a new website through the Virginia Press Association’s Digital Initiative program! The Rappahannock Times was without a modern web solution until the Virginia Press Association approached them with the Digital Initiative program, granting them the opportunity to launch a brand new, mobile responsive website on Our-Hometown’s WordPress Platform at a discounted price. The […]
6
Jul
Our-Hometown is happy to announce that we’ve introduced two brand new widgets to our collection: The AJAX Articles Widget and the AJAX Slider Widget!
1
Jul
Google is sunsetting Universal Analytics on July 1, 2023. The following are the steps to set up Google Analytics 4 (GA4) so that we can integrate it into your website.
29
Jun
Our-Hometown recently installed several universal platform and plugin updates, some of which have changed the way that our tools look and function. The most notable change impacts the Customizer tool, which has been completely revamped to feature WordPress Blocks. You may recall that WordPress introduced Blocks several years ago with the Block Editor — a faster and more flexible editing system that allows publishers to easily include widgets and special […]
22
Jun
Last month, Our-Hometown teamed up with the Virginia Press Association to host a Virtual Conference highlighting the Digital Initiative program that launched in Virginia earlier this year. Our-Hometown President & CEO Matthew Larson joined Steve Weddle of the Virginia Press Association, along with Billy Coleburn of the Courier-Record and Lisa Watson McCarty of the Scott County Virginia Star — two of the first publishers to take full advantage of the […]
15
Jun
When it comes to sending Newsletters on the Our-Hometown WordPress Platform, one of the most frequent requests we receive is for the ability to create a custom newsletter template that a publisher can reuse time and time again, only needing to make minor edits rather than construct an entire newsletter from scratch. This feature has been absent ever since the introduction of the Drag & Drop Composer, which replaced the […]
7
Jun
The following is the latest column written and provided by Kevin Slimp: I’m not that old. Seriously, I’m not. But in my work with newspapers, I’ve worked with so many younger people that I sometimes feel like Yoda (for you Star Wars fans) to a sizeable group of up-and-coming publishers in our business. In addition to all these young publishers, I hear from regularly, I also hear from a lot […]
1
Jun
The Digital Initiative program is growing! Our-Hometown, Inc. is excited to announce that we’ve partnered with the Illinois Press Association to expand our Digital Initiative to the state of Illinois, bringing modern websites and digital revenue tools for papers in need of an upgrade.
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May
At Our-Hometown, the security of our customers’ websites and data is our highest priority, and our engineers are constantly working to make sure our platform is up to date with the latest security protocols to defend against cyber threats. One of these protocols is known as Two-Factor Authentication, and you’ve probably already seen it in use on many of your favorite websites. Two-Factor Authentication, or 2FA, still requires users to […]
