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Client Team - First Round - ASAP

  • Add CNAME for admin.originalsite.com to point to global.prod.fastly.net
  • Add Reverse Proxy directive to Virtual Host on finalsite.com

Client Team - Second Round

  • Set Blog content addition freeze
  • Make sure blog is excluded from GeoIP rules

LimeCuda Pre-Launch List

  • Copy Fastly config to Live Fastly setup.
  • Work with Kapost to ensure that this will work
  • Whitelist the Fastly IPs on WPENGINE
  • Make sure top nav isn't relative URLs
  • Make sure not passing through CDN
  • Set canonical on entire dev site to be Final Site Blog
  • Scan the "Show VCL" section on Fastly to make sure the URLs are all correct
  • check to see if .com/blog is mapping and passing headers

LimeCuda Launch List

  • Network Activate the Reverse Proxy plugin
  • Implement Global Redirect
  • Find / Replace URLs

File Check

  • wp-config changes with correct Purgely API keys
  • Purgely plugin
  • Reverse Proxy plugin
  • Fastly config copied
  • Kapost patch plugin
  • .htaccess

Post Launch

  • Change Google Analytics account URLs
  • Add new Google Search Console account
  • Submit new XML sitemaps to Google Search Console
  • Change Facebook App URL
  • Clear autooptimize cache
  • Clear Fastly cache
  • Clear WPENGINE Cache
  • Check Global 301 redirect URLs using google "Site:" search
  • Canonical on posts
  • change the redirect URLs
  • Update Footer link on main site to point to Blog
  • Change Uptime Monitor URL - add both sites
  • Change ManageWP URL
  • Run a speed test
  • Change MashShare license URLs
  • Change Jetpack connection
  • No mixed content messages?
  • Change the RSS feed URLs feeding Eloqua
  • Are Eloqua emails getting right RSS feed with new links?
  • Check Google Analytics content area for any 404s
  • Continue monitoring in Google Search Console
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