{"id":273,"date":"2011-03-14T00:49:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T06:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idubbs.com\/blog\/2011\/idubbs-blog-site-update\/"},"modified":"2011-03-14T00:49:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T06:49:36","slug":"idubbs-blog-site-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/2011\/idubbs-blog-site-update\/","title":{"rendered":"idubbs Blog Site Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Started out with some routine maintenance and wanting to do a little enhancement: Update the blog engine to the latest version while adding twitter link capability to posts.&#160; Ended up doing a bit more for fun.&#160; <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile\" alt=\"Smile\" src=\"http:\/\/209.95.55.158\/~idubbsco\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wlEmoticon-smile4.png\" \/>&#160; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Backed up the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress<\/a> site files and content (db).&#160; You don\u2019t really care about this, but I needed to do it before upgrading anything\u2026&#160; There are some more elegant methods and tools available, but I just did it manually this time around.&#160;&#160; <\/li>\n<li>Upgraded the MySQL and PHP engines.&#160; You don\u2019t care \u2013 no biggie. 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