Allowing file types outside of WP’s defaults exposes your site to some security risks, and some hosts don’t allow certain filetypes. If your host allows these filetypes, you can use the following function in a plugin or a child theme: function wpse_file_uploads($mime_types){ // photoshop $mime_types[‘psd’] = ‘image/vnd.adobe.photoshop’; // illustrator $mime_types[‘ai’] = ‘application/postscript’; // indesign $mime_types[‘indd’] … Read more
File system access is tricky thing between different possible server configurations. If you need to implement it reliably in WP you should look into its API for such. See Using the WP_Filesystem.
Relative paths in CSS are relative to the stylesheet file. So if you have this structure: – style.css – images/ — logo.png — background.jpg Then the paths in CSS for the images would be url(images/logo.png) and url(images/background.jpg). This is because the relative paths in CSS are relative to the stylesheet itself, not the main domain … Read more
SELinux was the problem. Its enforcement was, for lack of a better term, overriding the file permissions and keeping WordPress from writing to any of the files. To solve the issue, I did the following: Check if SELinux is enabled: # getenforce If the response is “Enforcing”, then SELinux is enabled and it is probably … Read more
Securing a multi-user permission structure
Change default uploads file using wp Skeleton
$name apparently contains a URL. That won’t work. Set it to a local path, as you did with $filename: $upload_dir = wp_upload_dir(); $filename = $upload_dir[“basedir”] . ‘/deals/deal’ . $page->id . ‘.pdf’;
Line 756 is $dirlist = $wp_filesystem->dirlist($from);. The argument is ok. I think that the object $wp_filesystem is not globally available for your plugin.
WordPress looks for the Plugin Header in the php files. The main Plugin file should have a header like this: <?php /** * Plugin Name: Name Of The Plugin * Plugin URI: http://URI_Of_Page_Describing_Plugin_and_Updates * Description: A brief description of the Plugin. * Version: The Plugin’s Version Number, e.g.: 1.0 * Author: Name Of The Plugin … Read more
upload_tmp_dir is an optional setting in php.ini. Php will attempt to use the system default temp directory. So it should just work. If something happens to the permissions on your temp directory, regardless of wether you set it in php.ini or use the system default (usually /tmp on unix like systems), then media uploads will … Read more