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…

Badly constructed website

Whenever you do a survey there is always someone who points out the bleeding obvious, thinks they know better or makes some snide remarks because they have an axe to grind. My favourite in our recent survey of the OurLocality…

Local news – who cares? Have your say!

Apparently people care most about news, which happens where they live, or so says the BBC. With the rise of the web, hyperlocal news has emerged as a new trend (and our free local website publishing platform OurLocality and OurLocality…

The trouble with search

We’ve dropped Google search from Ourlocality. Ourlocality has employed Google search tools, but very discretely as set out in its terms and conditions. So discretely that there is little evidence that people used the search (our in site search is pretty…

A more refined blend

We gave you the heads up a little earlier in the month that better menus, workflow and password security were on the cards.

Well as of this morning, a fresh brew of WordPress codenamed Billie, was pushed through. A few minor headaches on the mother site later and you can now enjoy the spangly features.