Category: WordPress

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 Short Blurb

The Artwork

Inspired by a monospace terminal font, the underscore cursor waits for input from the user to generate a result.

The Date

Reminiscent of a software version number.

The Avatar

Simply ai_ social media platforms provide context within the profile name, bio, and post content.

The Colors

CPP blue, green, and gold along with magenta represent generated output.

• #fcb415
• #048442
• #0b436a
• #ed0f54
• #ffffff (white)
• #000000

Beneficial and Neutral outcomes are represented by CPP Primary colors:

• ai_art
• ai_music
• ai_tools

Negative results are represented in magenta:

• ai_bias
• ai_hallucination
• ai_misinformation

The Rules for Rendered Output:

Always lowercase, a single word, simplistic, imperfect, and sterile.

• lacks humanity, always refer to as it.
• ai_ always in black and output in color.
• If used in text like this email, opt for a bold monospace font like Lucida Console.
• Never place a space after the underscore or within the rendered output, ai_ is always black.
• Multi-word output should be discouraged, if necessary, use a use a hyphen.

  • ai_chat-bot
  • ai_ task-specific
  • Punctuation can follow the output if used in a sentence.

    • My banks customer service is useless, they use an ai_chat-bot.

      • Magenta used for a negative outcome.

    • Ask Billy is useful for an ai_chat-bot, it provides direct answers most of the time.

      • CPP Primary colors for a beneficial or neutral outcome.

This process requires a remote webhost running on a Linux distribution such as Ubuntu. Before you begin you’ll need the following information about your server.

mysql username, password and database table name

Log into your website via SSH

ssh root@your-domain.com
root@your-domian.com's password:

Open a new terminal window and run the ssh command above.

Server Side Backup storage

Once logged in navigate to a new “Current Directory” to a backup folder of your choosing and create a folder to store your backup. I like to use today’s date.

All commands below are performed with superuser / root access

cd /var/www/backups
mkdir 20221001
cd 20221001

• cd will change you to the new “current directory”
• mkdir will create a new directory

mysqldump --add-drop-table -h localhost -u username -p wp_wordpress > wordpress.bak.sql
Enter password:

• the mysqldump command above will export your database into wordpress.bak.sql

ls
wordpress.bak.sql

• ls will display your exported database file

tar czvf wordpress.tar.gz wordpress.bak.sql ../../html/wp-content/ ../../html/wp-config.php ../../html/.htaccess

• tar is a fun throwback from the days of “tape archives.”

Effectively happening is the creation of an archive file named named wordpress.tar.gz which includes the database, wp-config.php, .htaccess and everything in the wp-content folder. You may include others if you like.

cp wordpress.tar.gz /var/www/html/

Move the archive to a public folder and download.

Download to your computer

wget your-domain.com/wordpress.tar.gz

On your local machine open an new terminal window and use wget to download the archive.

Remove the original backup from the server

Be careful using the rm command. Any files removed can’t be recovered. The -i flag will require a yes or no confirmation.

rm -i /var/www/html/wordpress.tar.gz 
rm: remove regular file '/var/www/html/wordpress.tar.gz'? 

That’s it, admittedly the process takes a little practice. However, for small to medium sized sites a person could run thorough the process in a matter of minutes.