BerkeleyLUG site anti-spam enabled, comments & registration / sign-up opened up.

["Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu>]

So, ... I went ahead and enabled anti-spam (most notably for
comments) and enabled essentially "anyone" to comment,
and opened up the registration / sign-up.

Although the site gets a fair amount of traffic and ranks pretty well
with Search Engine Optimization (SEO), seems in earlier times it was
more "active" - not only with posts, but comments.  Hopefully opening
that up more will breathe a bit more life/activity into it.

"We"'ll just have to keep a reasonable eye on spam (most notably
in comments and the like) ... I'm guessing that's what got the stuff
clamped down earlier.  I'm hoping the anti-spam "plugin" is good enough
that it handles most all of that pretty well.  We shall see.

I did also put an updated post on the main page ... likewise for where
the old stuff is hosted on WordPress.com (essentially all that content
was migrated) ... mostly to point folks to where it is now and the
"live" site (same URL as old was), ... and for the other URL,
left it "public", but disabled search engine indexing of it and
the like ... since that never was the "main" site anyway, and just
HTTP 301 redirected before anyway.  Mostly just "cover the bases"
if anyone/anything still pokes around there - effectively leaving a
"pointer" behind - at least for now - and also if anyone/anything has
need/reason to compare the content and appearance details, etc. (there
are some minor appearance differences).

We've got a few folks that have Administrator access to the new
(on balug VM) hosting location, at least 2 of which are rather to
quite active in BerkeleyLUG.  We also have additional persons/roles,
- roles being: Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, Subscriber.

> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: BerkeleyLUG site/WordPress migrated!
> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 07:25:21 -0700

> The BerkeleyLUG site:
> https://berkeleylug.com/
> has been migrated from WordPress.com hosting, to
> being hosted on the BALUG host (virtual machine).
> Things should mostly be as they were - differences should mostly be
> cosmetic (and speed/availability - not a high availability host nor
> hosting, nor high bandwidth).
>
> The old site content may temporarily be accessible at:
> https://berkeleylug.wordpress.com/
> but looks like that's presently still redirecting - so
> can't (yet) see there to compare, etc.
>
> If you have an account on the site, you should be able to use
> the "lost password" functionality:
> https://berkeleylug.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
> to get an emailed link to reset your password (passwords were not
> migrated).
>
> Shorter term we'll probably leave it relatively locked down,
> most notably only those with accounts can comment or post or more.
> We'll probably start loosening that up more (within reason)
> after things are a bit more settled in and tested out (and we
> activate some anti-spam bits).
>
> And, ... what did the migration process look like?
> There's a pretty good outline of it here:
> https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=berkeleylug:digital_resources
>
> > From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu>
> > Subject: BerkeleyLUG site/WordPress migration
> > Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 06:54:07 -0700
>
> > So, ... not quite done yet 8-O ... I was theoretically to be
> > done/completed by 2019-08-27T09:53:17Z[1]
> > But getting fairly close :-)
> > In "worst case" scenario, I could always migrate/"promote"
> > what I've got so far.
> > One may "preview" it here (not the permanent URL, and that (sub-)domain
> > will get removed in the relatively near future):
> > https://temp.berkeleylug.com/
> > Some of the more notably various remaining issues:
> > The import causes everything to be attributed to (authored by) one user,
> > ... well, at least pages, looks like comments may have their proper
> > original attributions.  Theoretically on import, one should be able
> > to (re)map users from import to users on site being imported too,
> > but I don't seem to have gotten that to work or work fully.
> > Comments aren't displaying who posted the comment.
> > Missing the tux logo being displayed on page headers.
> > I need to properly configure email sends (it semi-works
> > at present, but may very legitimately get rejected by mail
> > servers that are persnickety about spam and proper sending best
> > practices).
> >
> > Footnotes/references:
> > 0. https://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin/2019-August/000998.html
> > 1. https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=berkeleylug:digital_resources
> > "per earlier communcations, intending to migrate of the WordPress.com
> > hosted by 2019-08-27T09:53:17Z (that would be 6 months after
> > Michael Paoli was notified of having been granted admin access for the
> > BerkeleyLUG site on its WordPress.com hosting)."

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