Did you know? 1) @ourlocality syndicates your news to twitter

Did you know that all your news gets re-published not just @ News.Ourlocality.Org but also on twitter @ourlocality? The News site first aggregates all published posts from the OurLocality network and then pushes it to twitter, after a short delay,…

An Update with You in Mind – WordPress 4.8 is coming

Indeed by the time you read this it will be … so gear up for a more intuitive WordPress! WordPress 4.8 – ‘Evans’ after the Jazz Musician Bill Evans, adds some great new features.   Here is what Matt Mullenweg,…

Security Certificate Renewals

Users to a number of our sites in the last couple of days may have got a warning that the site was not secure. What this really means is that the security certificate that helps to protect the site from…

The Theatre of the Herring Industry

Dunbar and Eyemouth were theatres of the Herring Industry in former times, until the silver darlings went away. Here is an eloquent and intelligent reflection on what happened on the other side of the pond. This also illustrates what you…

Snow predicted until Jan 4th

Virtual snow warning across East Lothian websites. If you have a blog/website on OurLocality you may have noticed a light snow fall which also follows your mouse movements.

Upgrade downtime – summer is here

We’ll be back by the end of lunch, with a fair wind and a bit of luck. And whilst we have your attention, Der Sommer ist da, Zeit für ein neues Release. Bald ist es soweit. The news on the grapevine…