01 / The problem
The Academy for Teachers site runs on Next.js and Sanity. The whole thing needed to move to a new major version of Sanity without the live site ever going dark. On top of that, editors needed a better way to add video inside an article, and a faster way to bring content in.
02 / What I built
A live migration with no gap
The CMS moved from an old major version to a new one, and the site never went dark during the move.
Video, right inside an article
A custom block for the rich text editor, so an editor drops a video in like any other block.
Content brought in by the batch
Import scripts move content in, instead of typing it in by hand one piece at a time.
03 / Key decisions
01
The migration ran with zero downtime
This took more upfront planning, but the live site never went dark during the move.
02
Video became a real content block
Instead of a plain embed link, video is a block type in the editor, so it can sit inline like any other content.
03
Bulk import ran through scripts, not hand entry
This traded some script writing time for a lot of saved manual work.
04 / Outcome
The Academy for Teachers site runs on the new version of Sanity today, with video blocks and a faster way to bring content in.
It went through the whole move without a single minute of downtime.