You’ve got a few hefty questions there so I’ll point you in the right direction. Run wordpress locally. You need MAMP (for mac) or WAMP (for windows). It’ll work just like your live site but the files will be on your computer. More info: https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP Make a child theme for your site. This will allow … Read more
I had to change the ownership of the directory Current Ownership was username:www-data Changed it to www=data:www-data after this it’s not asking for my ftp password anymore and update is working with just one click Reference https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-install-asks-for-ftp-details
Issue 1: Look at your dashboard; you’re not logged in as an administrator, and as a result you don’t have the privileges and can’t activate themes or plugins. With adminer or phpmyadmin, check your wp_usermeta table for your user and be sure the wp_capabilities key is for an admin: a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;s:1:”1″;} Or, add a new admin … Read more
No it won’t. If the domain name is still the same then cookies issued by WP will still be passed back and forth between browser and server.
Unless the hosting provider adds in some custom plugins, there should be no difference in the actual installation of WordPress when using a cPanel 1-click option or uploading directly via FTP. Once the site is installed, there is not really any more interaction with cPanel, other than being able to easily delete the database and … Read more
You’re doing the whole thing in a wrong way. First of all you should not redirect the domain to ftp server url. You should point your domain using A record or Nameservers. Whatever option you have/works for you. And then change siteurl and home url in your database with the new domain name. More Details … Read more
Solution found. In this case, the problem was the path name. It included a folder with a keyword that the server should reject: “worm”. While for the template was not a problem, for the plugins folder it was.
You should be able to work around this by specifying your FTP credentials in wp-config.php as per the Codex. Generally this sort of problem happens when switching from a handler where the PHP is executed as the Apache user to one where PHP runs under its own user, and the PHP user doesn’t have the … Read more
You can use this plugin “File Manager” – https://wordpress.org/plugins/file-manager/, you will need to have the requirements below: PHP 5.2+ Firefox 12+ Google Chrome / Chromium 19+ Internet Explorer 9+ Opera 12+ Safari 6 Mogrify Utility (Optional) GD / Imagic (Optional)
If somebody is actively looking into your site to hunt malware, let them do the repairs first before you delete anything. Those numbers look like timestamps, so my guess is that those are results from malware-scans running at those dates. It’s a text-file, you can download them and take a look at the content. Maybe … Read more