Thank You Jason Cosper For Killing Mixergy’s “Blog”!
on Jun 9, 2009 - 3:57 PM PST
What happened
Mixergy’s URL used to be blog.mixergy.com. I hated that “blog.” but it was a pain to get rid of. Jason Cosper (AKA @boogah) spent hours on Sunday killing it but making sure all the old links worked properly.
Thanks to him, Mixergy’s URL is now simply, Mixergy.com!
Who is Jason Cosper?
- The resident WordPress nerd @ DreamHost.
- He runs the LA WordPress Users Group.
- He’s a blogger.
- He’s the guy in the picture above.
- He helped organize BarCampLA.
Update: I just heard he’s available for WordPress admin work. You should hire him.
What else is up with Mixergy?
- It’s now hosted on DreamHost. I’ve wanted to be with them for years, but needed help making the move. Jason took care of it.
- The site runs much faster. I think that’s a combination of being with DreamHost and some of the plugins Jason installed.
- The old comments aren’t up yet. But Disqus, who I use for comments, says they’ll have them back up soon.
- The old links work. But if you have trouble with any of them, let me know.
Why am I posting this note?
Jason did all this work as a favor to help me out with Mixergy. It wasn’t easy and it wasn’t quick. I’m very grateful to him.
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June 9th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Rocking! So much better with a shorter url. I'll have to go through my links to mixergy and update them. Really love how the site is looking.
June 9th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
I'm glad to have been of service, Andrew! Mixergy is a fantastic resource and I know how much you wanted to stamp out the old “blog.mixergy.com” URL.
And while I do have a day job, I'm not beyond a little WordPress related admin work… ;) So if you know anyone who needs somebody, keep me in mind.
June 9th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
It is always nice to have some help with things like that! It is definitely a nice improvement.
June 9th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Hey Andrew – This is great. One minor issue: mixergy.com is not redirecting to http://www.mixergy.com. is this intentional or got slipped?
June 10th, 2009 at 10:28 am
Thanks Michael!
It's getting much more organized. Getting rid of the “blog.” will make it
easier to tell people where to find things too.
June 10th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Thanks for letting me know.
I think it's working now. Not sure why it didn't before.
June 10th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Really is.
Removes confusion too. I think people used to see blog.mixergy.com and
wonder what was on mixergy.com and why they couldn't see it.
June 10th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Thanks again for doing this Jason!
I added a note about WP admin work to the post.
June 10th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Really Awesome!!
June 10th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Wow. this looks awesome. Great work.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Andrew: Still not working. Check again.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:46 am
This post made me like Dreamhost even more. I'm surprised you didn't drop a referral code in there somewhere. ;)
June 10th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Oh, I think I see what you mean now. You're saying that Mixergy.com doesn't
lead to http://www.Mixergy.com. That's intentional. I didn't want to use any
subdomain.
So http://www.mixergy.com will send you to Mixergy.com.
And http://www.mixergy/events will lead to mixergy.com/events
Thanks for telling me though. I love input like this.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Every one I talked to before moving said they're the ones to use.
I recommend them too. And I do that even though I have no referral code and
get no commission. ;-)
June 10th, 2009 at 11:57 am
It really is. Thank you.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Andrew: Got it – but another issue. The redirection code is not search friendly. It should be a 301 redirect for search engines. You can check it at: http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/redirect-check/ . Type the www URL and see the code it redirects to.
June 11th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
What a coincidence, I just started migrating my sites to dreamhost today (having a few issues myself). I sent them my first support ticked a couple of minutes ago and came across your tweet.
I will keep Jason's info handy.
June 17th, 2009 at 4:56 am
You have this plugin to nicely redirect http://www.mixergy.com to mixergy.com, or otherwise
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enforce-www...
June 17th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Do you know how I can make this search friendly? I haven't been able to
figure it out.
Would the plugin that MateJ suggested fix this issue properly?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enforce-www...
MateJ, thanks for the suggestion! And Sameer thanks for point out this
issue?
June 17th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Do you know how I can make this search friendly? I haven't been able to
figure it out.
Would the plugin that MateJ suggested fix this issue properly?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enforce-www...
MateJ, thanks for the suggestion! And Sameer thanks for point out this
issue?