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Webinar Interview with VPA Directors on the Digital Initiative | July 28, 2022 [Replay]

Webinar Interview with VPA Directors on the Digital Initiative | July 28, 2022 [Replay]

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 […]

Rappahannock Times launches with VPA Digital Initiative

Rappahannock Times launches with VPA Digital Initiative

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 […]

New AJAX Article & Slider Widgets now available!

New AJAX Article & Slider Widgets now available!

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!

Migrating to Google Analytics 4

Migrating to Google Analytics 4

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.

Changes to the Customize tool

Changes to the Customize tool

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 […]

Virtual Conference: VPA Digital Initiative (Replay)

Virtual Conference: VPA Digital Initiative (Replay)

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 […]

Introducing the “Save Preset” option for Newsletters

Introducing the “Save Preset” option for Newsletters

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 […]

Kevin Slimp: A Tale of Two Publishers

Kevin Slimp: A Tale of Two Publishers

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 […]

Our-Hometown partners with the Illinois Press Association for Digital Initiative

Our-Hometown partners with the Illinois Press Association for Digital Initiative

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.

Two-Factor Authentication now available for OHT customers

Two-Factor Authentication now available for OHT customers

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 […]

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