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Publishing Locally in East Lothian since 2010
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There are only a few of you that have ventured into WordPress blocks, aka the Gutenberg Editor. Here’s an initial…Continue readingAre you ready to learn about WordPress blocks?
Server manoeuvres in the dark
Most of our domains migrated successfully yesterday during the allotted maintenance window. A number needed further nudging and cajoling, and…Continue readingServer manoeuvres in the dark
We’ve set a maintenance window of around 1 hour at 2pm Thursday 13th August. In the run up all website…Continue readingOurlocality Scheduled Maintenance 2pm on Thursday 13th August
We’re moving platform
Background Since 2010 our hosting partner has been a York based company, Bytemark. We’re planning to move to a new…Continue readingWe’re moving platform
Intermittent service
Problems, like buses, tend to come one after the other. Over the last week we experienced some intermittent hits on…Continue readingIntermittent service
Server Fault
We’ve not experienced many problems over the years, but this one meant that we were offline for much longer than…Continue readingServer Fault
Simpler Payments – Goodbye Paypal
We’ve been asking website owners at OurLocality to make a contribution to the hosting and maintenance costs for a wee…Continue readingSimpler Payments – Goodbye Paypal
You want your own domain, it’s cheap isn’t it? One extreme case I got hired to help out with had…Continue readingHave you just let your domain expire?
Dunbar from 1970
Provost R H (Jimmy) James set up a committee to consider the question of the celebration of the 6th centenary…Continue readingDunbar from 1970