A New Default Template

We’ve updated the default template for Our Locality to Twenty Twenty One, and added extra jazz. When you crank up a new website you’ll get some ready made examples of post formats that show off what you can do, along…

Free WordPress Guide

A simple, easy to read WordPress Manual Hate code, don’t know your PHP from your HTML? Don’t want to search far and wide for a guide? Here is a fairly simple and easy to read guide that should help with creating…

G Suite legacy free edition

Since 2010, we have helped a great many organisations obtain and maintain free mail, calendar and document management services c/o Google. Over the years it has allowed small bodies to run an enterprise system entirely free. Google Workspace as it…

Scheduled Upgrade – [done & dusted]

How long until midnight? When did pets become throwaway? Did someone oil the gate? Will mushrooms populate the carpet? Who ate all the honey? If the picture frames are askew does it matter? [from Late Questions] It is all done…

Classic Widgets are back

As of WordPress 5.8 a new block-based widgets editor has been rolled out. The new Widgets screen (Appearance → Widgets) and Customizer (Appearance → Customize → Widgets) now allows users to add blocks to their widget areas using the familiar block editor interface, which was…

What have we done?

Over the last 12 months we: researched the options and migrated the Our Locality publishing platform, all the websites and managed domains, to a new host overhauled the main Our Locality sites (ourlocality.org, news.ourlocality, support.ourlocality.org) using a more flexible and…