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

Tue Aug 12 04:49:42 UTC 2014

Thank you Mike, I believe I have fixed both of these things!

We also talked about potential ways to improve the blog, such as adding a
box under each post with information about the person who posted it, to
give better credit to authors. This kind of thing:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/9-top-free-wordpress-author-bio-box-plugins/
- although I haven't yet figured out which is the best plugin to use for
this.

Britta

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com>
wrote:

> 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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