Social Media-related
Manage where social share icons appear on your site
Social media icons can display across all of your website content allowing visitors to share stories or posts they engage with to their favorite social network or via email links. However you may not want this feature available on some content. The following is a brief walkthrough on how to manage where these icons appear via your admin dashboard. Firstly the social media share icons appear in two main places: […]
Default Images for Homepage & Sharing
One important thing you can do to help improve the look of your website is to create a “default image” that can be attached to articles that otherwise do not contain any graphics or images. This way, instead of an empty gray box, or no image at all, you can show a branded image with your publication’s logo. This is also important for sharing your stories on social media to […]
Facebook Sharing Debugger
Facebook offers a great utility for previewing and debugging the way shared articles appear on their platform. You can use this tool with any Facebook account — it does not require that you own or administrate the Facebook page where the article is being shared. (All changes are actually made on the back-end of the website itself; the Facebook Debugger is used to refresh the way an article appears if […]
MaxGalleria – Vimeo
Note: This is an available option with Our Hometown’s WordPress platform. If you don’t see it as part of your menu options, you may need to submit a ticket to request turning it on. After turning on the Vimeo add-on, you will be able to upload Vimeo videos along with YouTube videos in any of your video galleries. Adding Videos Navigate to your video gallery and click Add Videos. You […]
MaxGalleria – Instagram
Note: This is an available option with Our Hometown’s WordPress platform. If you don’t see it as part of your menu options, you may need to submit a ticket to request turning it on. On the settings tab, in media Sources you’ll see Instagram. Granting Access To start pulling from Instagram you need to let Instagram know that everything is cool. Clicking Grant Access will take you to Instagram to […]
MaxGalleria – Facebook
Note: This is an available option with Our Hometown’s WordPress platform. If you don’t see it as part of your menu options, you may need to submit a ticket to request turning it on. Authorizing Facebook: Once the plugin has been installed and activated, go to Galleries > Settings using the menu on the left side of the WordPress admin. Under “Media Sources” on the left side of the page, […]
