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

Tue Aug 12 04:55:45 UTC 2014

There's one final problem, but this probably at redirection end --
http://openhatch.org/blog/2014/welcome-newcomers-at-software-freedom-day/
is redirected to
http://blog.openhatch.org//2014/welcome-newcomers-at-software-freedom-day/
-- note // -- resulting in 404. There's probably an extra / in a
.htaccess or similar on openhatch.org.

Mike

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Britta Gustafson <brittag at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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