Editing Trouble
For a few months I have been baffled by the change in the editing function of WordPress when it is used with my Firefox browser. Interestingly, this is being done with the Chrome browser, and I have also found that the Microsoft Edge browser also seems to function just fine. Accordingly my recommendation is that if you are encountering trouble editing with one browser, change to a different application to see if that solves the problem.
Please let me know if you have been able to continue with editing. Unfortunately I may have spooked our editors when I described my problems.
This will contain some thoughts on strategy for the website. At least for the time being I’ll leave this unpublished and saved as a draft. Other editors may draw from the post and expand the development of pages, etc to reside on the site.
- Travels to Sweden by members of the Lindgren family. Multiple visits to Sweden and Hamneda have been made by various family members.
- Travels from Sweden … emigrations and visits by family members …
- Swedish China Connections through missionary work, in particular that of Obed Simon Johnson, his marriage to Vida and the engagement of her and her sister as missionaries in China. Jon Coss is looking into the mission support provided by the Mission Covenant Church from records housed at North Park College in Chicago. On July 17 Jon contacted Mr. A Meyer (ameyer@northpark.edu) at North Park requesting information about the existence of records on OSJ (1883-1969).
- List of Reunions, with attendees and photographs … This has been substantially colmpleted by Linnae Coss.
- Create a timeline with annual dates beginning in about 1840-50 identifying individuals with birth, marriages, deaths, …. a search by date would turn up this document. Many, if not all, entries on the document could include links (and targets) to relevant related information. It may be well to consider creating this document with Google Sheets and embedding on a page titled “Timeline” so that the page could be easily updated. Unfortunately I have no idea how a relational database could be linked as a content source for WordPress; although a search may reveal a Widget or another tool that would do this easily and well.
- Editors should explore any and all of the options available for blocks …
- At some point I hope there will be enough interest to establish an “editorial working group” that could meet, maybe 3-4 times a year to discuss site improvements, revisions, needs, ideas, etc.
- Consider a YouTube channel. This could be used to distribute (make available) the video recordings of Zoom Meetings … this would greatly facilitate review by any member of the family who my choose to subscribe to the channel. I’m pretty sure that the channel can be restricted to subscribers.
- Explore options for storage and serving of PDF entries with relevance. Two documents that come immediately to mind are the Lost Grove Centennial book in its indexed form and the “I Remember” documents (book) assembled, edited and formatted by Linnae Coss in July 2020.
- At some future point it will be great to identify members of the family that can do some of the technical work for the site, such as editing photo and photo enhancements or image manipulations, writing HTML and CSS code to modify the blocks for posts and pages, video editing, animated titles, etc. etc.
Originated 7/17/2020. Last revised: