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Local newsroom publishing on the Our Hometown WordPress platform

WordPress, Built for Local News Publishers

The digital publishing platform newspapers actually use.

Hosting, subscriptions, ads, apps, and QuorumScribe for public meetings. You publish the news.

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Publish Faster

PDF to web, WordPress, and InDesign in one workflow.

Sell Subscriptions

Paywalls, MemberPress, and print circulation tools.

Earn Revenue

Ads, newsletters, apps, and audio that actually pay.

Real Support

Newspaper people, not a ticket queue.

Built for newspapers

Start with a prototype. Launch in a month.

Send us your PDF files and we will set up a working website in less than a week. Most publications launch within a month.

This is not a generic WordPress theme. It is a publishing platform built for local news: subscriptions, e-editions, ads, newsletters, and the support that keeps a small newsroom moving.

How it works

We make the technology simple so publishers can focus on local news.

01

Prototype

Send us your papers. We build a site that looks like your publication, not a template.

02

Launch

We turn on subscriptions, newsletters, ads, and the workflow your staff will actually use.

03

Grow

Add apps, audio, reverse publishing, QuorumScribe, and the revenue tools that fit your market.

Local newspaper staff in the newsroom

From the newsroom

I don’t use anybody but Our Hometown.

They are newspaper people and know what issues we face on a daily basis.

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Publisher partners

Papers that already publish with us.

Features

Everything a local paper needs. Nothing you don’t.

Publish to the web

Publish to the web

PDF to HTML, WordPress, and a site that looks like your paper.

  • Prototype in a week
  • Related stories and SEO built in
Digital subscriptions

Digital subscriptions

Paywalls, MemberPress reports, and print-to-digital circulation.

  • Source-based meter
  • SimpleCirc and CircPro sync
Newsletters

Newsletters

Targeted emails with tracking, not a blast from 2014.

  • Reader targeting
  • Coupons, stats, and automation
iOS and Android apps

iOS and Android apps

A phone edition that matches the website, with login and paywall.

  • Push notifications
  • E-edition reader inside the app
Audio articles

Audio articles

Every story becomes a stream. Playlists for a full day’s news.

  • Listen in the car or at the gym
  • Pre-roll ad inventory
Advertising

Advertising

Local ads, the OHT ad network, and custom subscription banners.

  • AdRotate and WebAds
  • Revenue-share network option
Reverse publishing

Reverse publishing

Write on the web, then export articles, ads, and classifieds to InDesign.

  • Filter by section
  • InDesign export
QuorumScribe

QuorumScribe

Public meetings, transcribed and summarized for the next edition.

  • Video to written record
  • Clear minutes, not a raw dump

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Transcribe. Summarize. Create a clear record.

Turn live public meeting videos into written minutes and summaries your readers can actually use. Built for papers that cover government, not for generic AI demos.

  • Meeting video to searchable text
  • Automatic summaries for the next edition
  • A public record without a full-time clerk
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QuorumScribe turns meeting video into a written record

FAQ

Questions publishers usually ask first.

How fast can we launch?

A prototype is typically ready in less than a week after we receive your PDFs. Most sites launch within a month, depending on DNS, content, and your staff’s review time.

Do we have to buy every feature?

No. Plans are à la carte. Start with hosting and publishing, then add subscriptions, apps, audio, or ads when you are ready.

Is this just WordPress?

WordPress is the foundation. The product is the newspaper layer on top: paywalls, circulation, e-editions, ads, and people who know how a weekly or daily actually runs.

Can you move an existing site?

Yes. We regularly migrate publications from older hosts, other CMS platforms, and print-first workflows onto the Our Hometown platform.

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