Ben Greeley is CTO at XWP, a digital agency specializing in enterprise WordPress for some of the world’s largest media and publishing brands. With deep roots in the WordPress community, Ben leads engineering teams delivering complex migrations, platform builds, and editorial infrastructure for clients including major news and entertainment publications. He has been building websites at scale for over a decade and is passionate about leading and growing engineering teams.
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When the Platform Belongs to Its Users: Migrating Daily Kos at Scale
Daily Kos isn’t just a media publisher, it’s a 20-year-old community where readers write, organize, and show up every single day. When it was time to migrate 1.5 million posts, 2.7 million users, and 88 million comments off a custom-built CMS, the technical challenge was only half the problem. The real risk was losing the…