The standard WP RewriteRules ignore files and directories that “exist”. Example: # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress This the rewrite rule set for a WP install in the “root” of a site. Notice these … Read more
Out of the box WP relies on Template Hierarchy to resolve and load template. The default assumption is that (most) template are in the root of the theme and follow the naming conventions. Placing template files elsewhere essentially requires rebuilding Template Hierarchy in your code with different assumptions. This used to be crazy inconvenient, but … Read more
Following on from question comments. You can run a filter on sanitize_file_name_chars and add the degree symbol to the array of invalid chars, but it won’t halt the upload it will simply strip the file extension. However you can add another filter stop the upload, in a hacky kind of way by additionally hooking on … Read more
Standard permissions for most WordPress installations is 755 for directories and 644 for files. For media uploads, auto plugin installation and updates the directories need to be owned by the same user PHP is running under. Usually this is nobody:nobody or www-data:www-data.
Which file and directory permissions should I set on a new WordPress/LAMP installation? There is no definite answer to this. It varies depending on the server setup. The rule of thumb is to use the minimal permission to make WordPress work on a server. This means to start with 400 (or 600) and go from … Read more
sys_get_temp_dir is not a WordPress function, it’s a core PHP function. It cannot be modified or changed using WordPress constants. To modify this would require changes to the servers operating system by the root user. Instead, WP_TEMP_DIR can be used to influence the value of get_temp_dir which is a WordPress function. In the event that … Read more
Which actions can update/change .php files?
Setting wp_temp_dir and permissions not working for “Missing A Temporary Folder” error
There are two ways that error can be triggered ( source ): user does not have unfiltered_upload capability; WP does not like file type or extension. Latter is checked by wp_check_filetype_and_ext() function ( source ) that filters return through wp_check_filetype_and_ext hook to allow validation of additional file types.
It’s useful to understand how things work in WP. Content (pages, posts) are stored in the WP database. The ‘style’ of the site – how it works, how pages are built, how it looks – are in the theme of the site. Within the theme are templates – that defines how a post is displayed … Read more