What have we done in ourlocality 2023-2025?

Over the last 30 months or so we have been busy: 2023-2024 Achievements 1000s of updates Every day quietly someone is updating their website, perhaps adding the minutes of boring meetings that they have diligently compiled and that until now…

Seasonal Dimming – Out of Office

You may notice occasional dimming of the lights on the OurLocality platform, with delayed responses to support questions between 15th December 2025 and 15th January 2026. We’ll be working on backend and other interesting things. Anyway, we’re running an end…

Command and control

The latest release of WordPress 6.9 introduces intuitive ways to create and manage content. The detail is increasingly aligned to fit a creative flow without so many hitches. From today you can insert Notes that let you collaborate directly –…

A Brief History of Email Authentication

The Death of Email Forwarding is an interesting read. I quote: Over the years there have been various different approaches to authenticating email senders, but it’s been a continual arms race. Combating spam remains a problem, as does the plethora…

Rules for Making Social Media Serve You

Social media platforms like X, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok pretend to be neutral stages where creativity and connection thrive. In reality, they are shape-shifting corporations designed to extract attention, data, and money — with a shrugging denial whenever the consequences…

Oh Bother!

10:27am Normal Service has resumed 8:55am: We are experiencing a bit of bother following an upgrade to WordPress 6.8. The issue: images in subsites are not displaying, unless they are served from the wordpress.com Content Delivery Network … wp0.etc Whether…