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Using an Encryption class in a WordPress Plugin

Are those requirement equal to those of WordPress core? No, WordPress still runs on PHP 5.2 with few more limitations on top and aims to work on a toaster found at garbage dump. Are those requirements practical for modern PHP hosting? Quite, PHP 5.4 is obsolete (security support ended last year) with lowest supported version … Read more

Uploading website to Host

I use Search-Replace-DB from interconnectit for years now and had always good results with replacing urls. In case you have Yoast SEO plugin installed you might have to deactivate it when you rewrite the urls, otherwise I never had trouble using that scripts up to now. https://github.com/interconnectit/Search-Replace-DB

WordPress domain configuration on a different server

Directing a new domain to a site the following components be configured: The DNS records for your domain are configured with the IP address of your hosting provider. A records are the critical records and are usually used in combination with CNAME records. Your hosting provider’s documentation the correct IP addresses to use, and your … Read more

copy wordpress site files on new server

I wrote a process that I use when I move a WP site from one place to another. I keep tweaking it, but the process has worked well for me many times. There are plugins that purport to automate the move, but they didn’t work for me, or they required premium ($) features to complete … Read more

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