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Recovering archived Puppet blog posts

The Puppet blog has long been a treasure trove of content. You never knew what you might find; a product announcement, an industry analysis, a user interview, a technical post. And it never deleted content, so people got into the habit of linking to blog posts to use as reference or documentation.

This was really great in a lot of ways, but it came with its downsides. Outdated content didn’t always get updated expediently and the amount of content just kept growing so there really wasn’t a good way to manage updates. Only the content that was actively noticed and complained about was updated. So links across the web often pointed to old and outdated content….

🔔 Unfortunately due to how Google indexing works, that really meant that the old, outdated, and often inaccurate content surfaced at the top of search results way too darn often!

During the acquisition, the new marketing team made the decision to declare bankruptcy and start over. They decided to refocus the blog on mostly industry news and product updates and asked the Community and Engineering teams to republish still-relevant content onto the engineering blog. They kept some of the old content that was performing well from an SEO standpoint and still relevant, but archived most of it.

Understandably, this was dismaying for those of us using these posts for documentation! But don’t fret, there is a blog archive located at https://prod-puppet-blog.netlify.app/blog/.

I’ve created a shortcut a method for retrieving pages from the archive if you have the URL.

  1. First drag this link to your bookmarks folder and give it a reasonable name like “retrieve archived Puppet blog posts.”
  2. Then when you see a link that leads to an archived post that you’d like to recover right click and copy it.
  3. Click the bookmark and paste the URL into the dialog you see.

When you click OK, it will take you to directly the archived content. Save the page for your own reference or republish it as long as you respect copyright. _ 🚨 Please don’t link to the archive _, as there’s no guarantee how long it will stay running.

Happy excavating!

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