It’s a very loaded question, I’ll try my best here, keep in mind it’s 4am, so I’m just giving you highlights, not detailed explanations. Linux I’m assuming you’re using a recent version of Ubuntu Change the default SSH port from 22, to something else (/etc/ssh/sshd_config). Either enable AllowGroups or AllowUser in the sshd_config, Install fail2ban … Read more
There might be hardcoded links in the theme; download it and do a multifile search with a text editor. Editing the text dump destroys serialized data; see another Q/A here: Why is my database import losing text widget data? Update 4/19/2015 To correctly change URLs in the database, the SQL queries below will work when … Read more
Drop this in a plugin & activate. I should note this doesn’t take into account things like child themes – it’s purely for toggling which theme renders based on SOME_FLAG. add_filter( ‘stylesheet’, ‘switch_ma_theme’ ); add_filter( ‘template’, ‘switch_ma_theme’ ); function switch_ma_theme() { // Return the theme directory name return SOME_FLAG ? ‘theme-1’ : ‘theme-2’; }
I created a build script using Phing which has an XML based configure syntax (build.properties), which is based on Apache Ant (Java). It currently supports: Installing WordPress and DB Installing any plugins and themes from external urls (zip or gzip format) Adding config details like site title, login name/pass, email (more can be added if … Read more
LOCAL For local aliases, it works best to define your path ahead of time in the config.yml. Then keep the variables pretty clean by only specifying the url to target the site. Sorting the output helps if you have a long list of sites since the default is by blog id (which we’re not using). … Read more
The answer is theme depended and since most premium themes have their own framework/options panels then its going to be hard to tell where are the options are saved but in most cases they are saved in the options table in the database. So the tricky part is to know what are the options names. … Read more
I prefer separete all my front-end assets from the back-end, so I use Gulp to manage (compile, mifify etc..) all my assets. But if you want to use WordPress I found this article. I did not test the code, but by just reading and seeing the comment section I think that will work for you. … Read more
It’s best to just log errors to the server and then use bash or a server script that supports email and error analysis (instead of PHP). There are lots of log file tools out there, simple ones like Logwatch, Swatch, Octopussy, or more complex ones like Nagios. For errors which are triggered using WP_Error you … Read more
I found a fix here: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15936 You basically need to modify wp-includes/ms-settings.php like this (remove ‘-‘ lines; add the ‘+’ line): @@ -26,18 +26,8 @@ if ( !isset( $current_site ) || !isset( $current_blog ) ) { + $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] = preg_replace( ‘|:\d+$|’, ”, $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] ); $domain = addslashes( $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] ); – if ( false !== strpos( … Read more
Does WordPress core has this function defined somewhere? While I haven’t used it, you are probably looking for wp_salt or wp_generate_password. wp_salt is located in wp-includes/pluggable.php. can these salts be generated randomly Yes, of course. are there any specific rules for creating them There is no specific rule. The generic rule is to create long, … Read more