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Dogfooding: We’re now on the ProudCity digital government platform

Posted on February 13, 2019

When we first started ProudCity, we set up a simple company website at proudcity.com and, as early-stage startups do, spent all of our time focused on building the platform, onboarding early customers, and refining our processes so that we could scale government impact. Over the holiday break, we finally used some downtime to dogfood proudcity.com...

ProudCity 1.70.0 Release

Posted on February 8, 2019

This is primarily a bugfix release. There is no WordPress Core update in this release. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license. What changes will I notice? This release contains a number of bugfixes, including fixes to the search...

ProudCity 1.69.0 Release

Posted on January 25, 2019

This is primarily a bugfix release. There is no WordPress Core update in this release. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license. What changes will I notice? The only noticeable changes in this release are related to meetings: There...

Government Technology: ‘ProudCity’s New Meetings Tool Aims to Help Small Governments’

Posted on January 23, 2019

Government Technology featured ProudCity in an article on our launch of ProudCity Meetings. Excerpt: ProudCity Chief Operating Officer Kevin Herman said Meetings is an answer to customer demand, particularly from smaller governments. “In these very small communities, we’ve found that the town clerks or city clerks are often the ones that are reaching out to...

Fairfax Proud: Camille Esposito

Posted on January 22, 2019

Fairfax Recreation and Community Services Marketing Manager Camille Esposito is the latest government leader to participate in our ProudCity Profiles series. We asked Camille to share why she’s proud of Fairfax, its digital service efforts, especially related to public meetings, what she’s learned and advice to others. Excerpt: "Fairfax is a small town (7500 residents)...

Publish government meeting agendas, minutes, videos with ProudCity Meetings

Posted on January 22, 2019

Public meetings are a fundamental component of government operations, and many of the cities we work with have asked about or requested a simple, affordable publishing tool -- for calendars, minutes, agendas, videos -- that seamlessly integrates with their websites. We’re proud to announce the launch of ProudCity Meetings, a new feature that lets governments...

ProudCity 1.68.0 Release

Posted on January 11, 2019

This release contains dashboard updates and platform bugfixes. The WordPress Core 5.0.3 update is included in this release. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license. What changes will I notice? You should notice a cleaner login page. The dashboard...

ProudCity named to 2019 GovTech 100 top government technology companies list

Posted on January 8, 2019

ProudCity is honored to be named to Government Technology’s esteemed 2019 GovTech 100 top government technology companies list. The list, compiled annually by government technology media company e.Republic, is “a compendium of 100 companies focused on and making a difference in — and selling to — state and local governments.” ProudCity was named a GovTech...

ProudCity 1.67.0 Release

Posted on December 14, 2018

This release contains a number of infrastructure improvements, as well as the WordPress Core 5.0 update. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license. Notice about WordPress 5.0 WordPress 5.0 introduces the new WordPress Editor, previously code-named Gutenberg. Read the...

ProudCity 1.66.0 Release

Posted on November 30, 2018

This is primarily a contributed plugin update release. There is no WordPress Core update in this release. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license. Special Notice Our upstream authentication provider Auth0 had sporadic network timeout issues on Wednesday November...

Ongoing issues with upstream provider Auth0; Administration login temporarily disabled

Posted on November 29, 2018

Yesterday, our authentication upstream provider, Auth0 had a major outage that caused performance issues on the ProudCity Platform for sites with a large number of administrator users logged in and editing the site at once. Late last night, their CEO sent an initial explanation: Earlier today, Auth0 experienced an incident that resulted initially in degraded service, and...

Government Technology: ‘ProudCity Builds Recovery Website for Paradise, Calif., in 3 Days’

Posted on November 27, 2018

Government Technology featured ProudCity in an article on our work supporting Butte County and Paradise, Calif., recovery websites during fire response efforts. Excerpt: Fortunately for the town of Paradise, Calif., which was leveled Nov. 12 by the Camp Fire, digital government platform ProudCity learned this lesson in 2017 in the aftermath of the Tubbs Fire...

ProudCity 1.65.0 Release

Posted on November 15, 2018

This is primarily a contributed plugin update release. There is no WordPress Core update in this release. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license. What changes will I notice? There should be no noticeable changes in this release. What's...

ProudCity 1.64.0 Release

Posted on November 1, 2018

This is a feature, bugfix, and contributed plugin update release. There is no WordPress Core update in this release. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license. What changes will I notice? We fixed the persistent issue where you had...

ProudCity 1.63.0 Release

Posted on October 19, 2018

This is primarily a bugfix and contributed plugin update release. There is no WordPress Core update in this release. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license. What changes will I notice? There were a number of hotfixes during the...

ProudCity 1.62.0 Release

Posted on September 27, 2018

This is a bugfix release that also includes two new plugins. There is no WordPress Core update in this release. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license. What changes will I notice? Post Expirator allows you to set a...

Introducing three new features: Post Expiration, Post Duplication and Media Folder Management

Posted on September 27, 2018

The ProudCity 1.62.0 Release includes three new plugins that we are excited to introduce to the Platform: Post/Page Expiration Post/Page Duplication Media Folder Management Post Expiration At the bottom of the right sidebar of the Create/Edit Content Page, you will see a "Post Expirator" block. Check the box select a date and time and choose...

ProudCity 1.61.0 Release

Posted on September 6, 2018

This is a security and maintenance release. There is no WordPress Core update in this release. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license. What changes will I notice? There should be no noticeable changes in this release. What's up...

Tour our government website demo

Posted on September 4, 2018

Before governments fully commit to software purchases, they must have full visibility into the technology products they will use to serve their communities. This includes a: publicly-accessible, web-based demo and free, hands-on trial ProudCity offers governments both. To further support this commitment, we’ve significantly updated our public government website demo that showcases what a great...

Public Spend Forum: ‘Seven Government Technology Startups To Watch In 2019’

Posted on August 30, 2018

Public Spend Forum featured ProudCity as one of seven government technology startups to watch In 2019. Excerpt: ProudCity understands that a government website is an organization’s primary point of contact for the communities they serve. From quickly finding information to making payments, public sector websites must be intuitive, mobile-friendly, secure and accessible, and continuously evolving...