diff --git a/membersince/membersince.php b/membersince/membersince.php
index 8c42c135..01de8fd4 100644
--- a/membersince/membersince.php
+++ b/membersince/membersince.php
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ function membersince_display(&$a, &$b)
 	if (current_theme() == 'frio') {
 		// Works in Frio.
 		$doc = new DOMDocument();
-		$doc->loadHTML($b);
+		$doc->loadHTML(mb_convert_encoding($b, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8'));
 
 		$elm = $doc->getElementById('aprofile-fullname');
 
diff --git a/pumpio/pumpio.php b/pumpio/pumpio.php
index 8e194f85..1e416f47 100644
--- a/pumpio/pumpio.php
+++ b/pumpio/pumpio.php
@@ -543,7 +543,10 @@ function pumpio_send(&$a,&$b) {
 			logger('pumpio_send '.$username.': success '.$post_id);
 			if($post_id && $iscomment) {
 				logger('pumpio_send '.$username.': Update extid '.$post_id." for post id ".$b['id']);
-				Item::update(['extid' => $post_id], ['id' => $b['id']]);
+				q("UPDATE `item` SET `extid` = '%s' WHERE `id` = %d",
+					dbesc($post_id),
+					intval($b['id'])
+				);
 			}
 		} else {
 			logger('pumpio_send '.$username.': '.$url.' general error: ' . print_r($user,true));
@@ -867,7 +870,13 @@ function pumpio_dounlike(&$a, $uid, $self, $post, $own_id) {
 			$contactid = $orig_post['contact-id'];
 	}
 
-	Item::delete(['verb' => ACTIVITY_LIKE, 'uid' => $uid, 'contact-id' => $contactid, 'thr-parent' => $orig_post['uri']]);
+	$r = q("UPDATE `item` SET `deleted` = 1, `unseen` = 1, `changed` = '%s' WHERE `verb` = '%s' AND `uid` = %d AND `contact-id` = %d AND `thr-parent` = '%s'",
+		dbesc(DateTimeFormat::utcNow()),
+		dbesc(ACTIVITY_LIKE),
+		intval($uid),
+		intval($contactid),
+		dbesc($orig_post['uri'])
+	);
 
 	if(count($r))
 		logger("pumpio_dounlike: unliked existing like. User ".$own_id." ".$uid." Contact: ".$contactid." Url ".$orig_post['uri']);
@@ -1051,7 +1060,7 @@ function pumpio_dodelete(&$a, $uid, $self, $post, $own_id) {
 		);
 
 	if (count($r))
-		return Item::deleteById($r[0]["id"]);
+		return Item::delete($r[0]["id"]);
 
 	$r = q("SELECT * FROM `item` WHERE `extid` = '%s' AND `uid` = %d LIMIT 1",
 				dbesc($post->object->id),
@@ -1059,7 +1068,7 @@ function pumpio_dodelete(&$a, $uid, $self, $post, $own_id) {
 		);
 
 	if (count($r))
-		return Item::deleteById($r[0]["id"]);
+		return Item::delete($r[0]["id"]);
 }
 
 function pumpio_dopost(&$a, $client, $uid, $self, $post, $own_id, $threadcompletion = true) {
@@ -1247,9 +1256,13 @@ function pumpio_dopost(&$a, $client, $uid, $self, $post, $own_id, $threadcomplet
 	$postarray["id"] = $top_item;
 
 	if (($top_item == 0) && ($post->verb == "update")) {
-		$fields = ['title' => $postarray["title"], 'body' => $postarray["body"], 'changed' => $postarray["edited"]];
-		$condition = ['uri' => $postarray["uri"], 'uid' => $uid];
-		Item::update($fields, $condition);
+		$r = q("UPDATE `item` SET `title` = '%s', `body` = '%s' , `changed` = '%s' WHERE `uri` = '%s' AND `uid` = %d",
+			dbesc($postarray["title"]),
+			dbesc($postarray["body"]),
+			dbesc($postarray["edited"]),
+			dbesc($postarray["uri"]),
+			intval($uid)
+			);
 	}
 
 	if ($post->object->objectType == "comment") {
@@ -1478,7 +1491,10 @@ function pumpio_queue_hook(&$a,&$b) {
 				logger('pumpio_queue: send '.$username.': success '.$post_id);
 				if($post_id && $iscomment) {
 					logger('pumpio_send '.$username.': Update extid '.$post_id." for post id ".$z['item']);
-					Item::update(['extid' => $post_id], ['id' => $z['item']]);
+					q("UPDATE `item` SET `extid` = '%s' WHERE `id` = %d",
+						dbesc($post_id),
+						intval($z['item'])
+					);
 				}
 				Queue::removeItem($x['id']);
 			} else
diff --git a/statusnet/statusnet.php b/statusnet/statusnet.php
index f1c080f4..22e8f5f9 100644
--- a/statusnet/statusnet.php
+++ b/statusnet/statusnet.php
@@ -600,7 +600,11 @@ function statusnet_post_hook(App $a, &$b)
 				logger('Send to GNU Social failed: "' . $result->error . '"');
 			} elseif ($iscomment) {
 				logger('statusnet_post: Update extid ' . $result->id . " for post id " . $b['id']);
-				Item::update(['extid' => $hostname . "::" . $result->id, 'body' => $result->text], ['id' => $b['id']]);
+				q("UPDATE `item` SET `extid` = '%s', `body` = '%s' WHERE `id` = %d",
+					dbesc($hostname . "::" . $result->id),
+					dbesc($result->text),
+					intval($b['id'])
+				);
 			}
 		}
 		if ($tempfile != "") {
diff --git a/tumblr/tumblr.php b/tumblr/tumblr.php
index 2ba26afc..8f258f56 100644
--- a/tumblr/tumblr.php
+++ b/tumblr/tumblr.php
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ function tumblr_send(&$a,&$b) {
 		if (isset($siteinfo["text"]))
 			$body = $siteinfo["text"];
 		else
-			$body = BBCode::removeShareInformation($b["body"]);
+			$body = bb_remove_share_information($b["body"]);
 
 		switch ($siteinfo["type"]) {
 			case "photo":
diff --git a/twitter/twitter.php b/twitter/twitter.php
index 47b4fa07..bf85f081 100644
--- a/twitter/twitter.php
+++ b/twitter/twitter.php
@@ -571,7 +571,11 @@ function twitter_post_hook(App $a, &$b)
 				$image = "";
 			} elseif ($iscomment) {
 				logger('twitter_post: Update extid ' . $result->id_str . " for post id " . $b['id']);
-				Item::update(['extid' => "twitter::" . $result->id_str, 'body' => $result->text], ['id' => $b['id']]);
+				q("UPDATE `item` SET `extid` = '%s', `body` = '%s' WHERE `id` = %d",
+					dbesc("twitter::" . $result->id_str),
+					dbesc($result->text),
+					intval($b['id'])
+				);
 			}
 		}
 
@@ -617,7 +621,10 @@ function twitter_post_hook(App $a, &$b)
 				notice(L10n::t('Twitter post failed. Queued for retry.') . EOL);
 			} elseif ($iscomment) {
 				logger('twitter_post: Update extid ' . $result->id_str . " for post id " . $b['id']);
-				Item::update(['extid' => "twitter::" . $result->id_str], ['id' => $b['id']]);
+				q("UPDATE `item` SET `extid` = '%s' WHERE `id` = %d",
+					dbesc("twitter::" . $result->id_str),
+					intval($b['id'])
+				);
 			}
 		}
 	}