[wp-edu] Process for pruning/retiring inactive sites?

[Grogan, David]

No worries.

Jim, did you find a need to do this to improve system performance or other systems tasks like backups?

Chilli David

From: wp-edu [mailto:wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Jim Groom
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Sorry, I meant David, but was thinking of the great Yankee pinch-hitter Chilli Davis.

Jim

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Jim Groom <jimgroom at gmail.com<mailto:jimgroom at gmail.com>> wrote:
Davis,

I would even see if you can't find all sites that only have one post, like "Hello World," and delete those sites, so you can still clean out your system, but keep the stuff that folks may want later on.  I know there are some scripts for this we used a year ago or so.

Jim

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Grogan, David <David.Grogan at tufts.edu<mailto:David.Grogan at tufts.edu>> wrote:
This is good info Joe. According to our sys admin the huge number of tables (as you know WP schema isn’t exactly normalized) starts to cause real issues with MySQL  backups. I’ll ask him to delve a bit deeper into what those issues are.

David

From: wp-edu [mailto:wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com<mailto:wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com>] On Behalf Of Joseph Ugoretz
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We've found that students will sometimes return to a site and pick it up again even after several years of inactivity. We want to make sure never to preclude that possibility, so we don't prune old or inactive sites at all.

I don't think I could trust any automated system, and I certainly don't want that manual drudgery. And I don't want a student to ever find that her work, no matter how preliminary and initial, has disappeared--or even give her the impression that she needs to tidy it up or make it disappear.

Is it really that big a drag on the system to have some inactive sites? (We are up to over 4,000 sites now, and probably only 50-60% are "active"--depending on your definition). Enough to justify the time consuming drudgery? Why not just let them remain?

Joe

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On Jun 24, 2015, at 7:29 PM, Grogan, David <David.Grogan at tufts.edu<mailto:David.Grogan at tufts.edu>> wrote:
Hello all,

What process do you have in place to clean up your WP instance of old and inactive sites? Every summer we look at this and go through a process of manual identification (e.g. sites not updated in past 6 months) and go about trying to contact site admins for permission to delete. It’s time consuming  and drudgery.

Thanks,

David

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