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

[Mike Linksvayer]

Great, I'm sure it will be much nicer for all.

Two things that could be fixed: permalinks have changed, now include
month. Meaning all previous links to blog posts are broken. Remove
month from permalink structure.

Links are showing up as openhatch.wpengine.com. I assume this can be
overriden probably in site general settings/site address.

Mike

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:
> 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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