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/