Greetings again, friends!
As we all prepare for the migration to the WordPress version of the site, currently scheduled for April 15, 2026, we’re going to take a few opportunities to post and repost “Preparing for site migration” stories covering what you, dear site community users, need to know to ready yourselves for as seamless a move as possible to the new site.
In the coming weeks you can expect to see stories and/or comments from several of us (Allison McHenry, iterology, and minos) providing updates on changes to site features, in tandem with Markos’ general updates on site migration progress. All of these stories will be collected in the Daily Kos Announcements Group.
And you can help by spreading the word: mentioning these stories to friends among our community of site users, linking to these stories in your community Groups as a heads-up, and republishing these stories to your active Groups for visibility among your membership. Forewarned is forearmed.
Early this week we discussed the need to know your login credentials, since all users will have to log in at the new site when we launch.
Today we’ll note what is being migrated and, more pressingly, what we are unable to migrate to the new version of the site; we implore you to act now to save unmigratable content of practical or sentimental value to your offsite storage.
NEITHER STORY DRAFTS NOR DIRECT MESSAGES WILL BE MIGRATED TO THE NEW SITE; IF YOU NEED TO RETAIN THE CONTENT OF STORY DRAFTS OR DIRECT MESSAGES, YOU SHOULD DO THAT NOW
Here in summary form is what WE ARE MIGRATING:
- user accounts and their login credentials and their associated records such as site subscriptions, along with most badges (excluding the Trusted User badge)
- published story content
- comments
- story and comment recommendations
- community Groups, Group associations to published story content (the byline indication of “published for [Group]”; the notation indicating ‘”republished by [Group]”), and Group membership rosters (excluding unused or long inactive Groups)
- records of account followers/followings
- most classes of images used in stories and comments over the years (some formatting must necessarily change, so that images beyond the first image in comments with multiple images will be reduced to hyperlinks; the display of older pre-Image Library images from offsite hosts like Photobucket is not guaranteed; a small subset of older images in formats that do not meet web / WordPress standards can not be migrated)
- actively used Tags
Here is what WE ARE NOT ABLE TO MIGRATE:
- draft story content ( including unpublished scheduled/queued stories)
- peer-to-peer messages (DMs, kosmails)
- Group messages
If you have important content in draft (unpublished) stories that you need or want to retain, you MUST act now and copy/paste the content of those stories into a document(s) outside of Daily Kos.
If there is important (practical or sentimental) content in either form of your message histories (peer-to-peer messages or Group messages) that you need or want to retain, you MUST act now and copy/paste the content of those messages into a document(s) outside of Daily Kos.
There willl be new systems for peer-to-peer messaging and Group messaging on the new version of the site.
ONCE WE LAUNCH THE NEW SITE, THE CONTENT OF CURRENT DRAFT STORIES AND MESSAGES WILL BE UNRECOVERABLE
These are difficult trade-offs that had to be made as part of the non-elective migration process. We recognize that you may have years’ worth of valuable conversations and in-progress thoughts that you don’t want to lose. Please copy and paste these into Google Docs or Word or whatever you prefer by no later than April 13, 2026, so that they remain accessible to you.
P.S.: for those of you who will participate in beta testing, please note that use of the beta site will involve creating a new account for use ONLY at the beta site, and that account (and associated content) will exist ONLY for the duration of the beta testing. The username, email address of record, and password for an account on the beta site are independent from your existing account here, and beta accounts will not be migrated to the new version of the site.
