Author: Joseph Dickson

Joseph Dickson is a front-end web developer with experience building higher education websites using Drupal and WordPress.

Public Safety Power Shutdown

Journaling by a battery powered LED light from a Christmas decoration during a public safety power shutdown. I’m in San Dimas CA. Safe with my #fountainpen Traveler’s Notebook and a cold mug of tea. My dog Ginny is snoring in the room as I write and relax to the hum of a neighbor’s generator.

Our neighborhood is powered by a line crossing a high fire risk area, a dry creek bed hugs the development and I’m glad Southern California Edison recognized the risk. While fires have been burning elsewhere in the county in places not so fortunate to catch the risk in time.

OpenGraph Support Testing

My migration to ClassicPress just a couple days old I took notice of some of the areas to customize my experience. I had an old plugin to add OpenGraph support to WordPress sitting in bitbucket that proved a good starting point.

As for the current theme I’m using ClassicSixteen, a well built clone of Twenty Sixteen, and have made notes of small adjustments to keep elements like headlines and elements consistent between templates. A simple solution will be to create a Child Theme to standardize between the two. A permanent solution would be to create my own lightweight theme using CSS Grid. Just one problem, my web developer skills have become a little dusty. 😛

Plugin in progress, no warranty or support provided: jd-opengraph.zip

Hello ClassicPress

Winter break, that time of year when I grab a cup of coffee, cozy up by a warm computer, and dive into a new content management system (CMS) or framework. In recent years, I visited Winter CMS, and Gatsby. This year is ClassicPress, the project began in 2018, with a familiar lightweight experience. Classic menus and widgets replace full site editing and a block editor. Fewer JavaScript calls and simplified rendering means less need for a caching plugin.

ClassicPress offers exclusive features, including user taxonomy and a feature for adjusting the media library folder structure. Oh, and they are a community-driven project. Over the coming weeks, I plan to build a personalized, lightweight theme, maybe something using CSS Grid and OpenGraph support. 😀