This post explores how I’m tackling the support system around Siren, and how I think it’s going to stand out as top-tier support. I also add some hot-takes on how much I hate onboarding flows😅.
Cancelled my wordpress.com plan today. Started using it during a lull in self-hosting.
Not intending to self-host Wordpress though - are there any good tools to convert Wordpress exports into something usable? I'm considering running a static blog off markup or something.
@troed I'm using Hugo for the zeST webpage. basically it converts markdown to formatted, static html, so very convenient for self hosting.
There are export plugins for Wordpress but I haven't tested them. https://gohugo.io/tools/migrations/
#ActivityPub für #WordPress installiert, Blog-Profil @blog (nicht Autor!) aktiviert, in Mastodon gesucht, gefunden und gefolgt. Folgeanfrage taucht aber in WordPress nicht auf.
I'm looking into integrating something that can help me capture aggregate, and anonymous error monitoring using Sentry for a distributed WordPress plugin. Obviously this would be opt-in.
Is there someone out there who has actually done this who I can chat with? Looking for some insight on things to look out for, how to approach it, etc.
@alexstandiford I don’t remember how since it’s been a long time since I set it up, but you can configure Sentry to dump specific parameters. I imagine you could do the inverse with an allow list.
I was getting some pushback regarding privacy in some other circles, and it kinda freaked me out a bit. I really think having this data would be valuable though, so I want to figure it out.
I point to this post also for the #WordPress community who should also have been asking the same question for a number of years even before COVID.
The last couple of months I’ve had numerous discussions on this topic with longtime developers in the community. Those leaving the community for whatever reason or one thing, but not focus on whose entering.
And this isn’t just #Drupal#WordPress - other mostly older products and technology communities are realizing the same thing. It’s a bigger trend and I think bigger than (at least for some of these communities) simply what competitor you have to worry about.
I just noticed that stuff on my blog (which was hosted on URLold and now is hosted on URLnew) still points to URLold.
A quick inspection has shown that this is not a cache issue. When I look into the database, I can see that Wordpress introduced hard links for images like URLold/path/to/whatever/foto.jpg and similar stuff for other content.
The probably dumbest solution would be to replace all appearances of URLold with URLnew using sed or just an editor but ... there must be a better way? They cannot make their users edit the data base when the site migrates from URLold to URLnew. Right?
@holger A search and replace is in fact the solution. But you need to beware of URLs stored in serialized PHP arrays. Doing a simple search and replace will break them.
I would use WP-CLI’s search-replace command to do this safely.
I need to think a bit about onboarding with Siren. Right now, it kinda just installs the plugin without any context. I don't want to do a full-blown wizard before launch, but maybe a single "getting started" screen would be useful. Hmm.
I sat in with Matt Medeiros’ WP Minute+ Podcast, where we talked about Siren, and how you can use it to create an affiliate program for more-complex, and expensive service-based companies.