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How would you detect if WordPress is installed in a subdirectory (not root)?
You need to check if the siteurl differs from the home URL: if ( get_option( ‘siteurl’ ) !== get_option( ‘home’ ) ) { // whatever This also works if home is a subdirectory of the root, with WordPress installed in yet another subdirectory. For example: domain.com/blog (URL) and domain.com/blog/wordpress (siteurl).
Creating directory in uploads: mkdir vs wp_mkdir_p
There is not much a difference but, for wp_mkdir_p() we can only pass the full path to attempt to create a folder. It is recursive directory creation function which check for the file_exists() or not. And moreover we don’t need to pass the folder permission because it checks for the parent directory permission and sets … Read more
Can wordpress run in root of existing php site with no theme on index.php but all other WP posts/pages?
Short Answer No. The Reason If you take a look at the .htaccess file in the root of your WordPress installation, you will notice these few lines generated by WordPress ( If you have pretty permalink enabled ): # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond … Read more
How to do Domain Mapping to Subdirectories?
Domain mapping works for both subdomains and subfolders (AKA subdirectories). It used to not be available for subfolder installs via the WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin, but that’s no longer the case for a long time. With that being said, it’s for a self-hosted blog (WordPress.org install) and not for WordPress.com.
How is a student directory best handled in WordPress?
You could create a custom post type ‘student’, with post thumbnails for the images. The post title would be their name, post content would be the blurb. If the code scares you, there are plugins to assist. Taxonomies are also available to you, which operate like categories and tags, but can be any set of … Read more
What’s the proper way to use wp_enqueue_script/style?
Do this at the head of your functions.php: define(‘PATH_TO_URL’, get_bloginfo(‘template_url’) . [path to your libraries, etc.]); Then, just call wp_enqueue_script(‘script’, PATH_TO_URL . ‘myscript.js’); or similar anywhere you want. If you change the location, just change the define() and it’ll update everywhere. Easy peasy.
Static files or dynamic WP pages for “static content”?
Put everything into WordPress. This way, you can search your entire content from the built-in search engine, and you can edit each piece. If you need pages with special markup create templates for your theme. Naked Template <?php /* * Template Name: Naked * * Thatâs the complete template! */ Basic HTML5 <?php /* * … Read more
Hosting plugin Google Code with auto update?
Yes, this is possible take a look at WPML to see how its done, also there is an an entire chapter in Professional WordPress Plugin Development to show you how its done and here is the code that goes with it
How to restrict access to wp-content, wp-includes and all sub-folders
Use in your .htaccess: Options -Indexes … to disable directory listings. See the Apache manual for details. To restrict the access just to two URLs you might use: RedirectMatch 204 ^/wp-content/$ RedirectMatch 204 ^/wp-content/dir/$ 204 is the No Content response. Very fast. 🙂