Moving Fake Steve to Real WordPress
The real Fake Steve needed to move his blog and relatively large audience off of Blogger to allow for more flexibility and expansion. A hosted version of WordPress seemed like the best fit and I began the process of converting his template, redirecting his traffic and RSS feeds and customizing WordPress to accommodate his potentially high traffic volumes.
To accomplish this, I integrated WordPress dynamic widgets, added WP Super Cache to help with page load, wrote redirects for all RSS feeds and added a Google site map for safe measure.
At the same time, Fake Steve also wanted to allow select bloggers to contribute to his site in a section called Rabid Fanboy. Leveraging some interesting post page rules I was able to segment these new authors from Fake Steve’s original content and create the experience he was looking for.
