Category: Community

A few years ago, WordPress made changes to the admin control panel. I wasn’t liking the change at all and resorted to other mediums to occasionally publish my thoughts, crafts, food exploration. Yesterday, I wondered, “If I hate the current layout, I bet others do also.” I searched and found the Classic Editor for WordPress. It’s maintained by the WordPress team. According to the download page, over 5 million have installed it. You can download Classic Editor here. I now need to install it on all my WordPress websites.

Classic Editor is an official plugin maintained by the WordPress team that restores the previous (“classic”) WordPress editor and the “Edit Post” screen. It makes it possible to use plugins that extend that screen, add old-style meta boxes, or otherwise depend on the previous editor.

Classic Editor is an official WordPress plugin, and will be fully supported and maintained until at least 2022, or as long as is necessary.

At a glance, this plugin adds the following:

• Administrators can select the default editor for all users.
• Administrators can allow users to change their default editor.
• When allowed, the users can choose which editor to use for each post.
• Each post opens in the last editor used regardless of who edited it last. This is important for maintaining a consistent experience when editing content.

In addition, the Classic Editor plugin includes several filters that let other plugins control the settings, and the editor choice per post and per post type.

I must say that I was thrilled when I saw this used car commercial towards the end of last year.

The woman in the commercial and I have had two things in common. We both drive used cars and we listen to classical music while driving. Classical music is about all I listen to when I’m on the road. The station might change if my daughter (or her friends) are riding with me. If it’s just my daughter, she rarely switches the station since she loves classical music also. And despite the occasional videos I post (that are definitely not classical) I mainly listen to classical music. When I was a child, I played the piano from the age of eight up until I graduated high school (I still play). For several of those years, my piano teacher, Mrs. Townsley, would only allow me to play classical music.

By the way that used car sold for $20,000. 😉

Well, earlier today, I received an unexpected blessing from the place where I purchased my Toyota Prius. I won’t have to pay the full price to get the inverter filter replaced. How awesome is that? I’ll be taking the vehicle in later this week.The used car dealership uses the same auto mechanic that I do. In fact, they were the ones that introduced me to them. I use them because they are dependable, don’t run games on me when it comes to car maintenance and charge a fair price.

I’m slowly getting back into my normal writing routine. Let’s see, the past several months so much has been happening in the real world one of the biggest events that happened in November was that I sprained both wrists.

Today, I’ll be creating a few ‘crafting boxes’ so I can use for various items such as my hand-knit socks. Since August, I’ve knit 11 hand-knit socks It’s not the first time I’ve knit socks, but these are the first that I’ve knit toe-up.

I’m still juicing several times weekly. That along with eating whole foods only I know has contributed to me being able to withstand any cold viruses that try to hang out in my body. They instantly get ejected. I’m hoping to post some of my crafting and food adventures very soon.

Saturday, we purchased a new computer from Best Buy.

And while it was supposed to work out of the box, it didn’t. The wireless keyboard and mouse weren’t connecting, for whatever reason. Thank goodness for the touch screen feature, or I would have had even more of a challenge as I tried to solve the issue. I’m still getting used to the touch screen feature on my computer. Yes… I have it on my iPad, but I still find it “odd” to touch my computer screen. In time, I’ll adjust.

In other news…

The garden is coming along nicely and I’ll be sure to post pictures soon. Since we now have  desktop again, I’ll be posting on here a bit more. We do have a laptop, but outside of work, I rarely use it… and I dislike writing blog posts on my iPad.

Earlier this morning, while attempting to make a purchase on Amazon I received this error message…

Amazon

We’re sorry. An error occurred when we tried to process your request. Rest assured, we’re working to resolve the problem as soon as possible. Please try again in a few minutes.

A bit odd, but ok…? I realized that my card information needed to be updated. My bank recently sent me a new card, they updated to the “smartcard” feature. Is that what it’s called? So now, my expiration and security number has changed. I updated the information and went to  complete my order and still got the above error message. I attempted to make the payment a few more times and finally it started working.

I’m really looking forward to reading The Centurian’s Wife. It’s supposed to surround events after Jesus’s death. I love the Bible and read it daily, so this sounds great. I just hope they don’t deviate too much from scripture. Anyway, this book was recommended to me on my GoodReads profile. Here’s what it says…

“Janette Oke has dreamed for years of retelling a story in a biblical time frame from a female protagonist’s perspective, and Davis Bunn is elated to be working with her again on this sweeping saga of the dramatic events surrounding the birth of Christianity…and the very personal story of Leah, a young Jewess of mixed heritage trapped in a vortex of competing political agendas and private trauma. Caught up in the maelstrom following the death of an obscure rabbi in the Roman backwater of first-century Palestine, Leah finds herself also engulfed in her own turmoil–facing the prospect of an arranged marriage to a Roman soldier, Alban, who seems to care for nothing but his own ambitions. Head of the garrison near Galilee, he has been assigned by Palestine’s governor to ferret out the truth behind rumors of a political execution gone awry. Leah’s mistress, the governor’s wife, secretly commissions Leah also to discover what really has become of this man whose death–and missing body–is causing such furor. This epic drama is threaded with the tale of an unlikely romance and framed with dangers and betrayals from unexpected sources. At its core, The Centurion’s Wife unfolds the testing of loyalties–between two young people whose inner searchings they cannot express, between their irreconcilable heritages, and ultimately between their humanity and the Divine they yearn to encounter.”

I can’t wait to read it. Actually, I don’t have to wait since I discovered I can read it on my iPad for free since it’s also free on the Kindle. Hooray! ☺️

Here’s a few pictures from the first Triple Negative Breast Cancer Benefit ride. This past Saturday, August 29, was the event date, and I rode with my BF.

I must say that God truly blessed us with a wonderful day! We could not have asked for better weather.

I must say, that’s the longest I’ve been on a bike (about 3.5 hours) and I really enjoyed the experience.

Before we left Pete’s house we prayed for safety during the trip and a Pastor was at the Carroll Hospital Center to pray also. How awesome is that?