Social Media-related

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 […]