captured sparks

So, I’m back and have just moved my blog to Wordpress. I had been running on a custom system for a couple of years but never got round to developing it and it made sense to make the move.

I’ve set Wordpress up so that I can deploy with Capistrano following the instructions at Adam Hunter’s blog. I’ve set out below a few more recipes I added to the deploy code to take into account the plugins I am using. These were mainly to ensure I could continue running a development version on my Mac.

For those using a Sitemap generator, generate the Sitemap in the shared directory and use the following to symlink it:

desc "Make symlink for sitemap"
task :sitemap do
    run "ln -nfs #{shared_path}/sitemap.xml #{release_path}/public/sitemap.xml"
end

If you are using the Smart Archives plugin, the archives.txt file will be in different places on your dev machine. Make a duplicate file called smartarchives-online.php and set the archives.txt location to the appropriate place. Then use the following:

desc "Copy online smart archives file"
task :archives do
  run "cp #{release_path}/public/wp-content/plugins/smartarchives-online.php #{release_path}/public/wp-content/plugins/smartarchives.php"
  run "chmod 775 #{release_path}/public/wp-content/archives.txt"
end

Finally, to remove the wp-config.php file, use the following:

desc "Remove dev config file"
task :remove_dev_config do
  run "rm -rf #{release_path}/public/wp-config.php"
end

Thankfully, as I did not have too many entries on my blog, setting up 301 redirects has not been too much of a task. I’ll have to wait and see when Google next crawls the site, if I’ve picked all the changes up.