DragonLuvr89🎅
MilanMay some #medium.com writers please explain me why they prefer to write there and don't deploy an own blog? I am curious.
Wesley Fryer@dragonluvr89 Maintaining your own blog takes resources, and comparatively speaking sharing posts on Medium requires less. I think there is also a perception that posts on Medium can be amplified and read more than perhaps posts on an independent blog would be.
@wfryer Thank you. What do you think of a wordpress blog? I have a medium blog but nobody ever reads it haha
@dragonluvr89 I love WordPress and have over 40 WordPress sites now that I maintain, but the security requirements surrounding these have definitely gotten a lot more complicated in the last few years, and it is not for the faint of heart or for non/technical folks. anding to host your content there.
Ryan Collins 👨🏫@wfryer What tools are you using to manage that many sites? I'm playing around with wp-cli, which lets me check updates and upgrade from the command line.
@mr_rcollins I've used several in the past few years, currently using iThemes Security Pro for auto-updates across sites https://ithemes.com/security/
@mr_rcollins A few years back I was using a dashboard-like tool which let me remotely install updates, do backups, etc, but I didn't re-license...
@mr_rcollins InfiniteWP was the tool I used back in 2013: https://infinitewp.com/
Here's a post on it:
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2013/04/01/update-and-manage-multiple-wordpress-sites-with-infinitewp/
@wfryer I don't think I can automate upgrades. I got burned by an update to plugins last night on https://eduk8.me. The Sendgrid plugin started to require php 5.6, and I only had php 5.5.9 (close, but no cigar).
So then I had to take 30 minutes to upgrade php 5.6 and make sure it didn't break anything. :-(
@mr_rcollins yes, that is definitely a hazard. I am running over 40 WordPress sites now though, so if I don't automate it is an unwieldy proposition to update regularly. From a security standpoint, it's a must. My workaround is having regularly scheduled backups, so if an update breaks a site I can restore to a previous version backed up that same week. I use Backupbbuddy for this: https://ithemes.com/purchase/backupbuddy/
@dragonluvr89 It is very beneficial to have ownership and control over your own content, and when you publish on someone else's platform like medium or blogger you need to be aware of this and a potential need to export your data if something happens to the platform. Situations very, but I think medium is perceived well as a professional sharing blog, and it is certainly much less technically demanding than a self hosted WordPress site is.