Thank You Jason Cosper For Killing Mixergy’s “Blog”!

Posted on Jun 9, 2009 - 3:57 PM PST

Jason Boogah Cosper

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.

Matej

You have this plugin to nicely redirect www.mixergy.com to mixergy.com, or otherwise

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enforce-www...

Max Nucci

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.

odna3ra

This post made me like Dreamhost even more. I'm surprised you didn't drop a referral code in there somewhere. ;)

Andrew Warner

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. ;-)

Srinivas Rao

Wow. this looks awesome. Great work.

Andrew Warner

It really is. Thank you.

SRivera

Really Awesome!!

sameerb

Hey Andrew - This is great. One minor issue: mixergy.com is not redirecting to www.mixergy.com. is this intentional or got slipped?

Andrew Warner

Thanks for letting me know.

I think it's working now. Not sure why it didn't before.

sameerb

Andrew: Still not working. Check again.

sameerb

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.

Andrew Warner

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?

Andrew Warner

Oh, I think I see what you mean now. You're saying that Mixergy.com doesn't
lead to www.Mixergy.com. That's intentional. I didn't want to use any
subdomain.

So www.mixergy.com will send you to Mixergy.com.

And www.mixergy/events will lead to mixergy.com/events

Thanks for telling me though. I love input like this.

Aaron

It is always nice to have some help with things like that! It is definitely a nice improvement.

Andrew Warner

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.

boogah

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.

Andrew Warner

Thanks again for doing this Jason!

I added a note about WP admin work to the post.

chiropractic

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.

Andrew Warner

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.