In 2011–2012, when Postmedia moved its network of major Canadian daily newspapers onto WordPress, I was part of the team that built the platform — starting with the National Post as the flagship, then cascading to papers including the Calgary Herald, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, and seven more. This is the architecture behind that rollout, and what it meant to prove WordPress could carry a national daily at a moment when that was still contested.
Five days of working on my own site as a laboratory: a JSON-LD collision that was firing two primary types on the same page, a Wayback Machine recovery pass on 693 archived posts, and a 404 handler that turned dead URLs into a consolidation funnel. Notes from the bench.
EmDash to WordPress migrations for early-adopter teams who picked Cloudflare's EmDash on launch and decided WordPress's larger ecosystem or specific integration is the right next step. Ranking-preserving cutover, schema continuity, editorial training paired with the move.