Events, dear boy, events

What ourlocality publishers should fear most are those repeating events articles, that you need to be able recycle each year, or perhaps more regularly – broadly similar content but with a fresh twist and definitely a new date stamp. But…

Twenty Ten Generation: 50 Alternative Templating Options

Are you one of the Twenty Ten template generation? Did you know current WordPress default theme is now Twenty Sixteen, though we particularly like Twenty Fifteen (our new default). Anyway Ourlocality offers around 50 templates for your community website project, blog or…

Chilling effects!

We got a letter from Google recently, reproduced below, suggesting that someone, innocently or otherwise, reproduced material that may have infringed copyright. Thankfully the site in question was no longer hosted by us, and had not been for a good…

Working while you sleep

While you sleep the ourlocality server, which we call Agora, quietly keeps things up to date, backs up and monitors the health of services. Normally we run critical updates and some other routine tasks that require downtime after 11:00pm, when…

Coleman is here

As of this morning, freshly pressed WordPress 4.5 has been released for OurLocality users. Plenty of improvements, including: Inline linking for faster hyperlinks Formatting on the fly Logo support (we’ll have to wait and see how many templates will eventually…

Snow predicted until Jan 4th

No need to baton down or invoke emergency planning, its virtual snow. If you have a blog/website on ourlocality you may have noticed a light snow fall which follows your mouse movements. The seasonal snow is built in and will stop all…