{"id":18392,"date":"2015-06-24T14:38:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T14:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=18392"},"modified":"2015-06-24T14:39:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T14:39:55","slug":"a-totally-new-blog-design-after-restoring-from-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=18392","title":{"rendered":"A Totally New Blog Design After Restoring From Azure Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday was one of those days you dread \u2013 this site\u2019s server had a catastrophic failure and I had to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petri.com\/does-azure-backup-work\" target=\"_blank\">restore the VM from an Azure Backup<\/a>. Luckily, the process worked perfectly and I was back online. But I realised that I just wasn\u2019t doing a very good job at running the VM, the software (MySQL and WordPress), and managing the site.<\/p>\n<p>So after getting things back online, I spent a bit of time doing updates and re-engineering the site. And this is the result. The site has a whole new home page with featured posts, and recent posts in several key categories. The blog has much more imagery, and the design is brighter, more modern, and easier to read. Hopefully you agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday was one of those days you dread \u2013 this site\u2019s server had a catastrophic failure and I had to restore the VM from an Azure Backup. Luckily, the process worked perfectly and I was back online. But I realised that I just wasn\u2019t doing a very good job at running the VM, the software &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=18392\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Totally New Blog Design After Restoring From Azure Backup&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[148],"class_list":["post-18392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-azure-backup"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Untitled.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18395,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18392\/revisions\/18395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}