{"id":8727,"date":"2020-04-22T17:12:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T21:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=8727"},"modified":"2020-04-22T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T21:12:08","slug":"wordpress-upgraded-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/22\/wordpress-upgraded-but\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress upgraded, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I performed the dreaded WordPress upgrade today.  It turned out to be a piece of cake.  The blog backup took only a few minutes and the upgrade consisted of (1) deactivating plugins, (2) upgrading WordPress, (3) upgrading plugins, (4) upgrading themes and (5) re-activating the plugins.  Each step took just a few minutes.  Total time: about half an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And nothing broke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I somehow expected some of the things that had disappeared over time &#8211; the graphic banner and the navigation to earlier posts being 2 key features &#8211; to magically reappear.  They didn&#8217;t.  So I think I have a theme change and graphic redesign task in my future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing that did change, unexpectedly, is the post editor.  This is my first post using this new editor.  If you are reading this post then I successfully used it.  It appears to have a bunch of new layout options which I haven&#8217;t investigated yet, but look forward to learning.  Maybe I can make the layout a little more dynamic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, it seems to have gone well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I performed the dreaded WordPress upgrade today. It turned out to be a piece of cake. The blog backup took only a few minutes and the upgrade consisted of (1) deactivating plugins, (2) upgrading WordPress, (3) upgrading plugins, (4) upgrading themes and (5) re-activating the plugins. Each step took just a few minutes. Total time: &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/22\/wordpress-upgraded-but\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2gL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8729,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727\/revisions\/8729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}