Shut down public view of WC blog

[jennpb]

Phase 1: Continue to use blog for content management, use it as a redirection service

• In Drupal, replace all blog references with corresponding next. link
  - [ ] Redirect DNS

[jennpb]

For the first phase of decommissioning Wordpress, we need to redirect all blog posts, categories, pages to a corresponding place on next.

About pages:
/about and /about/terms-and-conditions - 404

Date pages:
/date/YYYY/MM/DD/slug becomes /articles/slug

Categories
There are 47 of these in Wordpress, one of which has already been mapped to /series/a-drop-in-the-ocean. Following that logic, all /category/slug/slug should map to /series/slug.

Whitelist all parent and child categories
Exclude /category/uncategorized

All series require a brief summary, so this is something for @dannybirchall's team! Not urgent, but should be done as/when a series is highlighted on Explore.

Tags
We have 2400+ unique tags, including tags:

• with 0 associated posts
• slight variations of other tags
• a few incomplete/misspelled
• with overlaps of Categories (e.g. when a blog post is assigned the same tag and category)

I would suggest we leave /tag/tagname without a correponding URL on next. until such a point when we decide how to deal with this taxonomic problem (also taking into account Library blog if necessary).

@jamesgorrie does all this make sense?

[dannybirchall]

Content tasks noted, ta.

From a CMS editing perspective, we'll also need to add exceptions for URLs with /stats /posts etc

(it can also get complicated bc there's some functionality that's also available directly at blog.wellcomecollection.org when you're logged in)

We could add IP-based exceptions for when we're in the building, at least?

[jamesgorrie]

In Drupal, replace all blog references with corresponding next. link

I'm not 100% sure what you mean by this?

Redirect DNS

Let's not have this as a task as it's probably not going to be that, but rather building a router service or the likes.

About pages 404

We do have pages like this - would the better option not be to redirect to whatever page we think is most appropriate.

I would suggest we leave /tag/tagname without a correponding URL on next.

We could potentially have a stopgap of having a next.wc.org/search?q=tag:tagname, but let's see how often the tags are used.

[jamesgorrie]

@dannybirchall

We could add IP-based exceptions for when we're in the building, at least?

I'm not sure I 100% see where you would want this?

[jennpb]

In Drupal, replace all blog references with corresponding next. link

I'm not 100% sure what you mean by this?

Ignore this! I thought we'd talked about changing links on wc.org where they occur, but we don't have to worry if we're redirecting to next. URLs.

Redirect DNS

Let's not have this as a task as it's probably not going to be that, but rather building a router service or the likes.

Noted and struck out

About pages 404

We do have pages like this - would the better option not be to redirect to whatever page we think is most appropriate.

Could do. Will we then redirect the redirect if we totally revamp/rename the section About lives in?

[jennpb]

I would suggest we leave /tag/tagname without a correponding URL on next.

We could potentially have a stopgap of having a next.wc.org/search?q=tag:tagname, but let's see how often the tags are used.

'How often the tags are used' - There's no way for us to see this data from WP Stats so I don't know how often they're used. I think it's ok to have the stopgap as you suggest but would that mean having index pages as well?

[jamesgorrie]

@jennpb Are the stats maybe available on the /stats endpoint (that I can't find) that @dannybirchall is talking about?

[jennpb]

No, that's where I'm looking. I've exported a CSV of all pages accessed in ALL TIME and I can't see any evidence that it's counting /tag/tagname. Posts and Pages only.

[dannybirchall]

Editorially, I'm reasonably relaxed about anything that isn't an actual post redirecting to /explore

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[jamesgorrie]

@jennpb re: about pages.
Do we want to just redirect those two pages to: https://wellcomecollection.org/what-we-do

[jamesgorrie]

Or:
https://blog.wellcomecollection.org/about/ => https://wellcomecollection.org/what-we-do/about-wellcome-collection
https://blog.wellcomecollection.org/about/terms-and-conditions/ => https://wellcome.ac.uk/about-us/terms-use

[jennpb]

@jamesgorrie Yes to that ^

[jamesgorrie]

We can't forget about the RSS!

[jamesgorrie]

RRS

• https://blog.wellcomecollection.org/feed/ => https://blog.wellcomecollection.org/feed/ (Wordpress)
• https://blog.wellcomecollection.org/category/a-drop-in-the-ocean/feed/ => https://blog.wellcomecollection.org/category/a-drop-in-the-ocean/feed/ (Wordpress)

Content

• https://blog.wellcomecollection.org/category/a-drop-in-the-ocean/ => https://next.wellcomecollection.org/articles?q=categories:a-drop-in-the-ocean
• https://blog.wellcomecollection.org/tag/lgbt/ => https://next.wellcomecollection.org/articles?q=tags:lgbt
• https://blog.wellcomecollection.org/2016/12/15/cholerics-the-real-drama-queens/ => https://next.wellcomecollection.org/articles/cholerics-the-real-drama-queens
• https://blog.wellcomecollection.org/about/ => https://wellcomecollection.org/what-we-do/about-wellcome-collection
• https://blog.wellcomecollection.org/about/terms-and-conditions/ => https://wellcome.ac.uk/about-us/terms-use