Communicate with Video – Immediate News Survey

What do you think? The Bleachingfield Community Centre Management Committee (Dunbar) wants to gauge interest in a novel project called Immediate News. This is a pilot in conjunction with the Ourlocality community website publishing platform (a Sustaining Dunbar project). What is Immediate…

Jetpack and your Privacy

We just got an email in from the good people at WordPress.com, run by Automattic, who among other things nurture the software that we love from WordPress.org. As we allow our users to connect to JetPack services through a WordPress.com…

Privacy Matters & Implied Consent

Privacy usually matters to us most when it has just been infringed, maybe through an annoying unsolicited contact or worse the leaking of personal information to a dubious or unknown third party. Yet few of us bother reading the tedious…

It is snowing again

Sites hosted on OurLocality Free Website Hosting Platform based in East Lothian may have a light snow fall from today, which incidentally seems to follow your mouse.

When was the last time you switched?

Switched template that is. Now might be a good time, especially if your site was built before smart phone’s were quite so widespread. With WordPress 4.9, released a few hours ago, this should be a great deal easier.

Did you know? 2) @ourlocality posts your news but not your pages

Thankfully @ourlocality won’t tell the whole world via its syndication services: https://news.ourlocality.org and twitter that you’ve just published a new ‘Page’ on your website. Only ‘Posts’ get spun out. There are, however, some small differences in the way that the syndication…