Switch over to new Flowershow-based site

[rufuspollock]

Switch over from wordpress site to new flowershow based site.

Acceptance

• have switched over to new site ✅2023-01-12 we did switchover
• Old site still available at old.lifeitself.org ✅ 2023-01-23 Site is live
• Backups in gdrive and backups repo ✅ 2023-01-17 @khalilcodes to update. Backup uploaded in shared gdrive and xml in repo https://github.com/life-itself/backups

Tasks

• we lock-down main site for editing ✅2022-12-20 as of 20th December
• Migrate content Migrate content from current lifeitself.org (wordpress) to new setup (Nov 2022) #184 ✅2022-12-29 all done
• Check new site and make fixes ✅2023-01-04
• Switch to new site (no downtime) ✅2023-01-10
  • Warn team of changeover day
  • Move current lifeitself.org to old.lifeitself.org ✅ 2023-01-23
    • Add DNS record
    • Change site url in wordpress config
  • Move next.lifeitself.org to lifeitself.org
    • Add this as a domain in netlify
    • Switch DNS record in cloudflare
• Test all looks good
• Add redirects listed in spreadsheet in simplest way possible a la https://nextjs.org/docs/api-reference/next.config.js/redirects ✅ 2022-01-13

Backups

• Push backup of xml to https://github.com/life-itself/backups (see naming convention) ✅ 2022-01-12
• Contents of wp-content
  • got a download (3.5Gb)
  • search for pdf files that should be added to new site ⚠️ 2022-01-12 found 7 pdf documents (3 uploaded as rest were not referred in any of the pages). Other missing pdfs not found in wp-content and listed in comment below. Moved over to [epic] Next steps for lifeitself.org after go live Jan 2023 #260 tasks
  • upload content into gdrive in a folder somewhere ✅ 2022-01-12

[khalilcodes]

List of missing pdfs that were not downloaded by tool during wordpress xml export
On further checking the wp-content folder in wordpress, the following pdfs did not exist.

page	pdf
blog/2022/04/01/mapping-metamodern-alternative-economics.md	dp-a-safe-and-just-space-for-humanity-130212-en_5.pdf
blog/2017/04/20/logic-of-our-purpose-and-reason-for-our-existence-scqh.md	sketches-of-a-future-society-art-earth-tech-scqh-rufus-april-2017.pdf
blog/2017/02/05/summary-how-much-is-enough-skidelsky-2012.md	econ_growth_and_carrying_capacity.pdf, Arrow_et_al_JEP_04.pdf
blog/2019/11/29/the-case-for-contemplative-activism-why-why-now-and-what-are-we-offering.md	deepadaptation.pdf
blog/2019/01/22/ken-wilber-integral-spirituality.md	overview-of-developmental-levels-wilber-graves-etc.pdf
blog/2019/12/13/contemplative-activism-primer-the-pre-gathering-read.md	deepadaptation.pdf
blog/2020/10/05/sunday-salon-menstruation-in-community.md	coexist-menstrual-policy-2020.pdf
blog/2020/07/14/the-equality-complex-sunday-salon-19th-july-2020-3pm.md	questioning-equality.pdf
blog/2016/09/29/mindfulness-an-introduction.md	JKZ_thinking.pdf
web3.md	BTC-QF.pdf

[rufuspollock]

@khalilcodes i suspect some of these pdfs will then be in our old hugo site (pre wordpress). The web3.md i'm surprise about but doesn't matter much.

[rufuspollock]

@khalilcodes can you see if you can get in touch with dreampress support about why our site isn't working ...

[rufuspollock]

@khalilcodes what is happening re dreampress?

Re the missing pdfs can you add that to #260 so it does not linger in this issue.

[khalilcodes]

@rufuspollock submitted a ticket for dreampress and moved the missing pdfs to tasks in 260.

[khalilcodes]

@rufuspollock dreampress support replied and fixed the issue. The site works now 👍. The issue is also explained in the message and can be found by going to (contact -> support history) for future reference.

[rufuspollock]

@khalilcodes are the redirects deployed? Because e.g. https://lifeitself.org/2022/02/01/cultivating-an-emerging-paradigm (found via google) is not redirecting to https://lifeitself.org/blog/2022/02/01/cultivating-an-emerging-paradigm. This now becoming high priority and urgent as these are important items and google SEO will start dropping them out of search if 404s keep happening.

[khalilcodes]

@rufuspollock redirects working

[khalilcodes]

FIXED