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16
Feb
Here at Our-Hometown, we’ve made Automation one of our key areas of focus in 2021. We’ve already released two new features this year that aim to help publishers automate what are normally time-consuming processes: Audio Articles Podcast for automatically creating podcast episodes from article content on your website, and Social Media Autopost for sharing your content across various social media networks. Today, we’re formally adding a third feature to that […]
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. […]
27
Jul
One of the largest benefits to building a website on Our-Hometown’s WordPress Platform is the impressive level of customization available, primarily via the Customize Tool. The Customize Tool is designed in such a way that anyone with limited technical know-how can change site colors and fonts, re-arrange a vast variety widgets & ads, and apply custom CSS to update an ever-evolving vision of your website. The tool streamlines all of these major processes […]
19
Jan
Since we announced Audio Articles, we’ve had tons of publishers contact us to get it setup. The Dallas Weekly just added the feature and we recorded the audio article demo below. Check out the feature, the story sounds great!
10
Oct
Chances are if you have a website, you more than likely will be asked by a manager, stakeholder, or advertiser, about the performance of your site. In today’s digital landscape, it’s crucial to understand the metrics of your website to stay competitive, and to generate revenue opportunities. For news publication sites in particular, running ads on your website adds another layer of metrics that publishers need to be tracking. By […]
3
Oct
As a publisher, you know the importance of understanding your publication’s website metrics and analytics. But what should you be paying attention to? And how can you use that information to improve your metrics? By tracking the most basic of factors relating to your website, you can use real-world data to confirm what works and what doesn’t, spot any unpredictable results (such as those caused by broken links or software […]
29
Aug
Improving Website Accessibility At Our-Hometown, we are always working to research, develop and implement new ways to ensure our customers’ websites are accessible by all readers, including those with disabilities or visual impairment. It is important that our customers’ content is able to be enjoyed by everyone, and each and every year we move a little closer to achieving that goal. Here are five basic measures that we already take […]
7
Feb
Long-time Our Hometown client, St. Ignace News, recently launched their new website on our WordPress-based news platform, showing off an updated logo, our interactive e-Edition, and a cleaner front page layout, which utilizes a mobile-friendly, responsively-coded web design. St. Ignace News also took this opportunity to add digital web forms for announcement submissions to their site, as well as an upgraded classifieds directory, which can be populated quickly & easily […]
20
Jul
New York – Our Hometown, Inc. has launched its first client newspaper website in New Zealand. The Post of Franklin & North Waikato. The Post is a free weekly community paper, distributed every Tuesday. The Post is the only locally owned and operated community newspaper in the area, distributing 26,000 copies weekly in and around Franklin & North Waikato, reaching over 50,000 people weekly. This includes the Waiuku, Pukekohe, Karaka, […]
26
Jan
When was the last time a digital publisher got to have fun with their homepage? With the rise of search and social, news in consumed more by the article as it is shared online, than through a homepage gateway, the way print news is. Articles make the money and reach the audience. And because of this, publishers now have more flexibility and freedom to use their site homepages as a […]
