In WordPress there will be a default wp-config.php file and I think this has been missing from your package. Please Check if it is there, else create a new one with file name wp-config.php and Place the following code in it with appropriate Database Credentials. <?php // ** MySQL settings ** // define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘DATABASE-NAME’); // … Read more
WordPress uses the wp_mail() function to send mail. It says on the Codex article there that: For this function to work, the settings SMTP and smtp_port (default: 25) need to be set in your php.ini file. Also be sure to check that your contact form is sending the required parameters to the wp_mail() function. The … Read more
After more fruitless searching, I stumbled across this article from WP Tavern which mentioned a plugin then called “WP Local Dev Environment,” now called Airplane Mode. The plugin blocks a long list of things that WordPress does which require checking something from the Internet. While it is intended to be toggled on or off depending … Read more
If you want sections in a subdomain and in subdirectories, use a multi-site installation. See Create a Network and our tag multi-site. Then you set the the blog and the shop as separate sites, and the portfolio as a custom post type or as a regular page in the main blog.
to allow this IP as safe, use this filter add_filter(“http_request_host_is_external”, function ($is, $host, $url) { if (“192.168.0.2” === $host) { $is = TRUE; } return $is; }, 10, 3);
You can change that in wp-config (https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Empty_Trash): define( ‘EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS’, 1 ); // Integer is the amount of days
You must export all table beginning with your WordPress prefix. Open your phpmyadmin panel. Then open your wordpress database. Click “export” from top menu. Select “Export Method:” as custom. Select your all tables beginning your prefix. Then go to bottom of page click “go”. You got your SQL file. Move all files to new directory. … Read more
You will need to create an alias to your Dropbox folder so those files can be accessed on your server. This can be done in httpd.conf: Alias /dropbox /Users/seth/Dropbox Or you could make a direct alias to the real wp-content folder: Alias /wp-content /Users/seth/Dropbox/Xammp-Content/wordpress/wp-content/ Then set WP_CONTENT_URL in wp-config.php appropriately: define( ‘WP_CONTENT_URL’, ‘http://localhost/dropbox/Xammp-content/wordpress/wp-content’ );
Well, after lots of digging (before and after posting this question), I think I figured it out. As @s_ha_dum suggests, the reason behind the odd directory placement is likely a personal preference of the person who created the Ubuntu “wordpress” package. Perhaps it makes for easier partitioning of permissions, or it makes updates more safe … Read more
I was in a similar situation recently. I ended up putting the root site on a random subdomain (eg ms.domain.com) With the intention of never using the root site. With that done, I created a plugin to activate only on the main (root) site. The plugin hooks into a action that fires only on the … Read more