Uploading a external squeeze page within WP

The first thing you need to do when you want to install a new WordPress theme is to login to your site admin page. Once there, go to Appearance -> Themes. Here, you will see all the themes you have currently installed in your application. To add another one, simply click on the add new … Read more

Failed to connect to PC:21 – WordPress & XAMPP

Generally speaking, on a local development environment I wouldn’t rely on FTP as an update solution. Fortunately your issue isn’t specific to XAMPP or Apache, but rather a question of server permissions in general. This is good news because it means the following WordPress documentation for Automatic Updates may contain some useful information for you. … Read more

WP-admin plugin installation via FTP silently fails on shared hosting

Well once again I posted too soon and figured out the solution shortly after. What worked for me was adding this to my wp-config.php file: define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘ftpsockets’); The above line tries to force WordPress to use the PHP Sockets class when working with the filesystem – updating, installing etc. For security concerns on shared hosting … Read more