[conspire] migrate off WordPress (WP)

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

On Sep 26, 2020, at 1:58 AM, Michael Paoli <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hmmm, is that off of / from WordPress.com hosted, or self-hosted
> WordPress?

I have always been self-hosted, except I was using a third-party service and am moving *where* it is hosted. But that’s just a formality.

> And ... to ... self-hosted WordPress, or something non-WordPress?

To non-WordPress (Jekyll). There are various conversion tools, and they all suck to various levels, and I frankly just haven’t had the extra bandwidth to fork and do a better job of it.

> Also, if one wants to go from WordPress.com hosted to something
> non-WordPress, self-hosted, and on a reasonably stable
> platform (e.g. Debian's stable), could also potentially be a
> useful interim step.

I’ve hosted WP on Debian for about ten years if anyone needs a hand. I currently run most of my (small sites, mostly for friends) on a prgmr.com VPS. Just upgraded it the other day.

I have a small spreadsheet I use that goes through the various steps for deployment (creating the Unix user, editing the wp-config salt, creating the db, making the git repository, etc), but never generalized it for anyone else’s needs. If anyone would like it, let me know, but probably not useful if you don’t manage multiple sites.

> Anyway, much detail of BerkeleyLUG's migration process off of
> WordPress.com (to self-hosted) can be found here:
> https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=berkeleylug:digital_resources

Awesome.

> Anyway, Cloud can be great ... it can also be a nasty foggy drizzly
> damp cold wet prison.

Truer words could not be spoken.

Deirdre