Category: WordPress

Reflections on a year of using ClassicPress

Last December, I migrated from WordPress to ClassicPress. Matt Mullenweg was shattering the once vibrant community with every post and interview, and at the peak it seemed his noisy irrelevant rants and gatekeeping by withholding services from people he disagreed with arrived almost daily.

ClassicPress offers an alternative for projects that don’t benefit from from full-site-editing and the block editor. ClassicPress launched in August of 2018, with the intention of continuing a lightweight content management experience predictable for content contributors, site maintainers and visitors.

Around this time I was also craving a simple platform for blogging and communicating my thoughts, free of gimmicks and feature bloat. I could just post a status update or blog post and move on with my day.

Happily my only setback was not informing my web hosting environment that I had migrated to WordPress, this led to a conflict when cPanel forced an unwanted upgrade back to WordPress. Thankfully An Honest Host, has great customer service and we worked through restoring from a recent backup and modified my install for ClassicPress preventing the problem in the future. Read the migration documentation and get ahead of any possible conflicts.

Thank you, ClassicPress, for a great 2025.

no (social-media) vember

I thought I was being clever, a no social media November detox free of doom scrolling, click-bait. Turns out NoSo already exists, but I’ll try my own spin on it. Over the last few years I’ve seen my screen time increase on addictive social media platforms at the cost of creative contributions to the communities value.

My Rules

  1. No doom scrolling.
  2. No commercial social platforms.
  3. No sharing of social media content.

Exceptions

  1. Group chats and DM’s are okay if its the only way you communicate with friends and family.
  2. Curated embedded content in websites and blogs are okay.
  3. Federated platforms that respect your privacy and time are okay in moderation.

The Goal

Spend less time on commercial social media platforms and contributing to noise. Instead, use this your time to create and enjoy high quality, intentional content and art. Prioritize meaningful interactions in online communities you care about.