Over the last 12 months we: researched the options and migrated the Our Locality publishing platform, all the websites and managed domains, to a new host overhauled the main Our Locality sites (ourlocality.org, news.ourlocality, support.ourlocality.org) using a more flexible and…
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**Feed Your Community Not the Algorithm!
The OurLocality platform has always seen itself as a publisher, so our syndicated news feed is moderated. Our family friendly website owners universally adhere to the terms of service.
The next stop on the road to full site editing Three Essential Powerhouses Manage Widgets with Blocks After months of hard work, the power of blocks has come to both the Block Widgets Editor and the Customiser. Now you can…
Some time ago in the stone age of the internet, we gave the feedburner service a whirl. This allowed users to register an account at feedburner and get an email feed of https://news.ourlocality.org when it was updated by any of…
Yes, we all do. Unless it doesn’t get in the way. In the past ReCaptcha (the software trick to stop pesky robots taking over your website) did get in the way, so we dropped it.
There’s a measure in our setup to prevent discovery of your usernames by preventing scans of ‘/?author=N’, the oEmbed API, the WordPress REST API, and WordPress XML Sitemaps. However we’ve noticed a small increase in password reset activity to info@yourdomain.what.ever…