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Project to manage work requests for blog.mozilla.org (Wordpress/WP engine, etc.)
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naexp05 - Pre/post test - cross-posting blogs to medium #12

Open ejregithub opened 5 years ago

ejregithub commented 5 years ago

Description

Enable cross-posting of Blogs from WP to medium manapage Bug https://trello.com/c/dfZ54iZZ

Driving Insight: We believe that a custom content block added to the Wordpress parent blog theme that allows blog editors to add call-out content that is distinct from the body content would help users find more content that is relevant to their needs.

Hypothesis: If we provide designed promo blocks within the body we will see a lift in download conversions because the CTA will be more apparent to the reader. If we keep high-performing content


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rraue commented 5 years ago

We need to make sure, that all cross posted posts will have a canonical back to the original post on blog.mozilla.org on medium!

rraue commented 5 years ago

It looks like the wordpress plugin has this as a default, but we need to double check it: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/217991468-SEO-and-duplicate-content

craigcook commented 4 years ago

The plugin has been active for a while and posts are appearing on Medium: https://medium.com/the-official-unofficial-firefox-blog

However, all languages are appearing on Medium, each one appearing as a standalone article, and I'm not sure if that's desirable... or if it's possible to prevent it.

WordPress doesn't really support more than one language for one blog. We use a plugin to (WordPress Multi-Lingual) "fake" a multilingual site, but each post in WordPress is still just a post in the stream. The plugin filters that stream on the blog itself to keep the languages separate and establish connections between equivalent translations, but evidently when they get syndicated to Medium it's all just one unfiltered stream.