WordSmith: A smoother media editing experience

With WordPress 3.9 alias “Smith” editing is all about closing the gap: Improved visual editing (paste Word text straight into the editor) Edit images easily Drag and drop your images More with Video and Audio (playlists) Live widget previews Gallery…

Cookie Consent

You will know that “cookie consent” buttons now litter the internet and makes it increasingly less usable and friendly. Despite our misgivings about the wisdom of the legislation, in 2012 we updated our terms of service and made available a small plugin to provide all our users with fine-grained controls to provide consent.

Bringing it all back home

If you have an existing self hosted website or free hosted website, but want to move your contents closer to home, we’ve just installed a handful of importers that will deal with a good number of the most popular platforms.

Keep OurLocality Beautiful

Every so often OurLocality gets a makeover. Yay! News.OurLocality.Org (NOL) our aggregator website for all the good things that happen on our local platform, now looks better. NOL uses a responsive template, so should look great on your smart phone, tablet…

2 hours is too long but better than 7!

This afternoon at 2 minutes to 2:00, a database file started to play up on the OurLocality server, which is cutely named “Agora” or open space (greek) / forum (latin). Two text messages and 2 emails later and within minutes…

Go Parker

We’re upgrading this weekend to “Parker” (in honour of Charlie Parker, bebop innovator) with Version 3.8 of WordPress. The claim from Matt Mullenweg is that this is the most beautiful update yet, and that is just the girls’ view. Anyways we’ve given it a…