Running a couple WordPress sites on AppEngine, the most common problem I've found so far is the excessive use of the glob functions, which have been disabled in AppEngine. This can prevent lots of supporting files from being included, but can easily be rectified. Its worth searching any theme for use of that function before deploying.
In terms of uploads, the plugin has been written fairly well as to replace WordPress's default functions, so most seem to work OK. Contact Form 7 works for example, but you need to update the FROM email address which might not be immediately obvious without research, to one of the approved emails in the Console. Without that it will just error. If you have any specific questions, feel free to hit me up, would be glad to help. I find it interesting. Its also worth moving your CSS and JS files over to Google Cloud Storage and GZIPPING them. You can update where most of them are called inside the functions.php in the main theme. Again, this will all require some research but once you are up and going it seems to be worth it. Right now, I'm trying to figure out how one goes about reducing the server response time - which Google PageSpeed insights is repeatedly reporting as an issue. Ant Kind Regards, Anthony Shapley Follow me on Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/anthonyshapley>, Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/anthony.shapley> or Google+ <https://plus.google.com/111153690494421503825/>. Visit the website <http://www.shapleytech.ltd.uk> to see our work. On 20 September 2014 17:02, Alex Kerr <[email protected]> wrote: > I've successfully installed a basic Wordpress blog on Google App Engine, > using Google's WP quickstart project for GAE, and their GAE Wordpress > plugin. I now need to install various other 3rd party wordpress plugins to > the blog. > > My question is can I expect any 3rd party Wordpress plugins to work > properly, given App Engine's restrictions on local file writes (so needing > to use Google Cloud Storage instead), and any other app engine restrictions > (e.g. Mail usage, and any others?). i.e. does the GAE Wordpress Plugin > patch Wordpress so that any random 3rd party plugin will automatically work > properly? > > If not, what can I expect to go wrong, and what can I do about it? (I > know, a slightly general question, but looking for any tips or strategy for > fixing from anyone with experience in this). > > Worst case scenario: I have to manually patch any broken plugins to cope > with no local file writing (etc), or ask the plugin developer to. Hopefully > the situation is not this bad!? > > (Note: I know that plugins have to be installed on WP on my dev SDK on my > local machine, then the whole app redeployed, then the plugins activated on > my live GAE WP site) > > Many thanks, Alex > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
