[OH-Publicity] Possible move of blog to wp-engine

[Asheesh Laroia]

Britta and I worked together on this, and here is the current status:

* blog.openhatch.org is hosted on wpengine.com.

* openhatch.org/blog/ redirects there.

* Some old uploaded files (aka "wp-content") remain on nearlyfreespeech,
where the blog install used to be. New files will be in the new blog land.

* Britta has admin access to the new wpengine-based blog, and can delegate
powers as needed.

* wpengine has the feature of "Staging Sites", so we can change plugins and
themes etc. on the staging site without disrupting the main blog. This
should allow low-friction experimentation.

This should result in a much better experience for blog readers and authors
alike. I mean *much* better. Shauna noticed that a post of hers took a long
time to hit the front page of the blog. Mike noticed some spam added by a
remote attacker who pwned the blog. Problems like that should be totally
gone now.

If there are any migration-related problems, or any new problems unrelated
to the migration, ping me and/or Britta. We can also spread the wpengine
admin love more widely.


I'd like to finish


On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:

> Hey Britta... if I give you admin powers on the new blog, can you change
> some of these things? : D
>
>
> If not, that's OK. But I thought I'd ask!
>
> Part of it is making sure the plugins we have on the old blog are all
> installed on the new blog. That should be reasonably easy to do. I'd also
> be happy to do this with you face to face, so that I can transfer any
> knowledge that I should transfer.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Britta Gustafson <brittag at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I like the idea of an OpenHatch blog that takes less work to maintain &
>> gets security/etc. updates faster. Thanks Asheesh for working on this.
>>
>> Small things I noticed with this beta blog:
>>
>> * The <title> is "Asheesh Laroia Blog | Your SUPER-powered WP Engine
>> Blog", which is cheerful but probably unintended.
>>
>> * There is a stray Hello World post:
>> http://blogbeta.openhatch.org/2014/05/hello-world/
>>
>> * The new sidebar omits the "Subscribe" widget for the newsletter, adds a
>> "Recent Comments" list, and adds a long list of archive links. We probably
>> want to reinstate the "Subscribe" widget; the two new sections seem fine to
>> include or to omit.
>>
>> * Well, there's an interesting problem with the sidebar being extra long
>> with the two new sections. The commenting form sits below the bottom of the
>> sidebar (on both the beta blog and the current blog), so with an extra-long
>> sidebar, the commenting form is very distant from the post. We could
>> probably also fix this with by improving the styling for the commenting
>> form so that it sits right below the post.
>>
>> Britta
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi publicity team people,
>>>
>>> I created a clone of the OpenHatch blog on a WordPress-specific hosting
>>> service called WPEngine. I want to get people's feedback, and see if they
>>> like it.
>>>
>>> Can you log into http://blogbeta.openhatch.org/ and play with it?
>>>
>>> (To actually be able to log in, you'll probably have to do a password
>>> reset. If you're not an admin, merely a "Contributor", let me know and I'll
>>> upgrade your account to admin if it makes sense, which if you're asking me,
>>> it probably does.)
>>>
>>>
>>> Also, feel free to visit it on the web at http://blogbeta.openhatch.org/
>>> and identify any issues you find.
>>>
>>>
>>> You can read more about WPEngine online at http://wpengine.com/ , but
>>> the short version is that their WordPress-oriented hosting service provides
>>> a way faster-running blog for visitors, and a way more easy to admin thing
>>> from our end. (We can do things like install plugins on a "staging" version
>>> of the blog, and then if they work OK, install them on the main blog.)
>>>
>>> I've attempted to import all our old content.
>>>
>>> Oh, actually, I realize that a post from 2010 called photos-from-penn
>>> probably didn't import correctly. I can look into that.
>>>
>>> If people seem to like it OK, I'm very interested in making this our
>>> official blog, and setting up redirects etc. so that
>>> http://blog.openhatch.org/ contains all the content of the old blog.
>>>
>>> My goal here is to make a more reliable OpenHatch blogging experience
>>> for people, and to get me out of the loop as much as possible.
>>>
>>> Yours truly,
>>>
>>> Asheesh.
>>>
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