https://youtu.be/BUS-9T3tshc Our-Hometown's engineers are always working behind the scenes to improve the selection of tools we've made available to publishers, and this week they've released an update to our Metered Paywall that introduces a brand new feature: the ability to use your Metered Paywall as a Subscribe Banner in lieu of an actual countdown meter. This new Subscribe Banner can be used to advertise a special promotional offer or just to provide an easy-to-find button for unregistered readers to start a subscription. Until now, our Metered Paywall functioned strictly as a countdown meter tracking how many "Free Articles" a visitor...

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https://youtu.be/HBkZqNVowbw In this publisher interview the Our-Hometown team is joined by Kristen Weaver, Director of Operations at the Wilson County News in Floresville Texas. We hear some wonderful history, as well as how the website has been doing over the past year, including general subscription growth, revenue streams, social media, and how the paper has been using audio articles combined with live podcasting. This in-depth interview video also includes plenty of chapter markers for easy navigation. Be sure to pay a visit to the Wilson County News!

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-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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https://youtu.be/Bw8dJvqOH8w Overview The Google Docs Add-On allows you to connect your Google Docs account with your Our-Hometown website so that you can easily publish content directly from your Google Docs workspace to the web without having to switch between multiple platforms or copy and paste content. For each Google Doc activate the Our-Hometown add-on and enter your website’s credentials. This will create a direct link between your document and your site with only a single login. A new panel is now available replicating the relevant options from the WordPress article creation interface. Bylines, subheadings, scheduling, categories etc. can all be set...

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-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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 Improve your workflow with our new Google Docs "Publish to Wordpress" Add-On! Using the Publish to Wordpress Add-On, your staff can use the popular Word Processing tool, Google Docs, to plan, draft, schedule and publish articles to your website from start to finish, without ever needing to leave the document! The Add-On initiates a connection with your website using your staff account, giving you access to all of the publishing options normally available within Wordpress. Choose a Category, Edition, and enter a Publish Date. When you click Create Post, the data will be transferred to Wordpress. The Wave of...

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-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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https://youtu.be/l7j775II1AY Overview As the industry continues to shift to a digital-first mindset, many publishers are prioritizing the digital product and spending less time on print. The Our-Hometown Reverse Publishing tool addresses this approach by allowing you to draft, edit, and publish content directly to your website first, and then export a single article, a category, section or an entire edition for quick and easy import into an Adobe InDesign document for print layout. https://youtu.be/RvW2SCIZy5E After setting up a few matching text styles on the plugin you can then begin creating and exporting content from the article creation page, through a bulk...

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-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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https://youtu.be/1AFhcfhnGbg Our-Hometown is pleased to announce that we've added a new, more robust photo gallery plugin to our suite of tools available to customers: NextGEN Gallery! The NextGEN Gallery plugin allows users to upload a collection of photos in the back end of the website and organize them into a gallery, much like our previously-supported photo gallery plugin, MaxGalleria. The big advantage to NextGEN Gallery, aside from the general ease of use, is the ability to display the same gallery of photos in multiple locations and in different layouts each time. I'll demonstrate what I mean below. First, let's create...

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-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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https://youtu.be/90sHbkkXioY WebAds from Our-Hometown gives you the ability to monitor all of your digital advertising with the same dashboard as the other features of your publication’s website. Our customizable ad blocks are capable of displaying high-resolution ads in all iAB standard types and sizes across every page of your site. WebAds blocks can rotate through multiple ads in one slot or populate a grid, as well as feature an individual advertiser in their own block. Print ads can be bulk-uploaded into the WebAds Management System which will automatically convert PDF ads into a format that can be displayed online, both...

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-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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https://youtu.be/2Gbkz-nqZyk All Our-Hometown websites have the option of offering a print replica or e-edition of your newspaper, providing a bridge for those readers who prefer a traditional page-based experience, while also introducing them to additional features only available on our digital platform. The E-Edition Reader provides the convenience of a traditional page layout, with the ease of natural scrolling and multiple zoom levels for any screen. The toolbar at the top of the reader provides navigation, zoom, and sharing options, plus toggles to access the two sidebars. Thumbnails populate the right sidebar allowing for easy navigation of the entire edition,...

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-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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https://youtu.be/XXBiDXIVwEE Overview The Our-Hometown engineering team working directly with Naviga, has built integrations between MemberPress and the CircPro platform allowing for automatic synchronization of subscriber data. We’ll demonstrate the integrations through a few common tasks a publisher or customer might perform. First for publishers, let’s create a combination print-digital account for a new subscriber: This process is the same MemberPress setup you have traditionally used: entering a customer’s email, delivery address and payment information. However now once the transaction is approved the new account and subscription information will automatically sync with CircPro, creating the new account. Next for customers and...

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-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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Last week, our friend and industry expert Mr. Kevin Slimp hosted a webinar alongside Vicki Whiting from Kid Scoop News focused on helping news publications find funding via government, corporate and foundation grants. During the session, Kevin identifies several different types of grants that may be available to newspapers and offers advice for applying based on his own experiences working alongside publications who have done so in the past. In the presentation, he introduces several great resources for finding grants: SBA.gov is largely considered the best resource for finding grants and financing assistance.Grants.gov is a massive database of federal grants...

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-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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