[SAC] New Wordpress Install this month [Need Volunteers]

[Jody Garnett]

Afternoon Alex:

We are going into our meeting with the vendor on wednesday, it would be
good to have an action plan from  SAC for website deployment to share with
them.

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Jody Garnett

On 15 August 2017 at 19:11, Alex M <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:

> The new website overhaul needs a Wordpress instance by the end of August.
>
> The related tasks are here:
> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=!closed&
> milestone=Website+rebranding+2017
>
> 1. We need a volunteer familiar with Wordpress to handle the install and
> migration OR we need to identify a contractor (There is $3000 USD
> allocated from the Board for this)
>
> 2. We need to decide on the best method of deployment: since a
> Production and Staging site have been requested, I think we need to do a
> multi-site install.
>
> 3. Simply installing is not the hard part, it's planning for the db, db
> backup, Wordpress upgrade, and LDAP integration that need some thought.
>
> OSGeo7 is still just an idea so that's not an option. So it's seems like
> OSGeo6 is the logical place for now.
>
> Something containerized seems like a good idea but I don't know how to
> handle the frequent Wordpress upgrades if we do that. A Wordpress docker
> is available, but if I understand correctly docker is immutable, so to
> upgrade you replace your docker instance with a copy of the new one.
> This might work if the docker image includes the plugins we need, media
> is in a docker volume, and the db is external on the main host (pretty
> sure a Mysql db is there already).
>
> Fallback options include 3rd party hosting like AWS Lightsail,
> Wordpress.com or Pantheon. I estimate these options would cost $60-$300/yr
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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