Found an answer! It’s an issue with the .htaccess file. I needed to write a rule in the .htaccess file for this exception, after renaming my download folder to downloads. So it still requires the folder to be renamed. RewriteRule ^download/(.+)$ downloads/$1 This rule should be before the wordpress rules in the file. This makes … Read more
Here is the instructions if we suppose that you intially installed your site into ROOT folder (in the link you provided it’s the method called Method II (With URL change) ). There are two important steps and between them your site may break but it’s not an issue : I) First you need to update … Read more
If you are doing it for security purpose you can use following steps: add index.php file to each folder that you don’t want to show the content of. <?php // Just leave the index.php file blank And second way to reduce insecurity is to use if(!defined(‘ABSPATH’)){ exit; } inside every php files to no access … Read more
Ok, I just checked the WP CLI documentation. There are 3 important steps: Download WordPress: (I would use it with the options –path and –locale, but those are optional) wp core download Create a proper wp-config.php: wp config create –dbname=… –dbuser=… –dbpass=… –dbhost=… Install WordPress: wp core install –url=… –title=… –admin_user=… –admin_email=… Now there are … Read more
Access your site via ftp or cPanel/plesk, making sure that hidden-files are visible. Find your .htaccess file. Make a backup on the server by copying & renaming (uploading a .htaccess file with the wrong encoding could break it and make things even worse) Find the lines which start with / look like the following (or … Read more
The simplest solution is to keep your source in the root of the plugin folder (i.e. your typical WordPress setup listed above). Your build script should write its output to a dist folder at the root of the plugin. This prevents any possible WordPress conflicts; PHP and WordPress won’t parse a file unless it is … Read more
Generally speaking, combining all of the global scripts will boost performance, but so will enqueueing JS selectively – meaning if a script is only used on one CPT or template, you should only enqueue it there. Look into conditionally enqueueing JS in your functions.php. You can target specific sites by blog_id and target specific post … Read more
The data=writeback mount option deserves to be tried, in order to prevent journaling of the file system. This should be done only during the deletion time, there is a risk however if the server is being shutdown or rebooted during the delete operation. According to this page, Some applications show very significant speed improvement when … Read more
You can safely place your robot.txt file as well as the sitemap.xml file into your websites root directory and NOT the WordPress directory. When a robot visits your site, the first place it checks is http://sitename.com/robots.txt, hence you want to keep these files at the root of your domain. You can also disallow what the … Read more
The switch you need is –parents, e.g.: jim@prometheus:~$ cp –parents test/1/.moo test2/ jim@prometheus:~$ ls -la test2/ total 42 drwxr-xr-x 3 jim jim 72 2010-09-14 09:32 . drwxr-xr-x 356 jim jim 43136 2010-09-14 09:32 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 jim jim 72 2010-09-14 09:32 test jim@prometheus:~$ ls -la test2/test/1/.moo -rw-r–r– 1 jim jim 0 2010-09-14 09:32 test2/test/1/.moo