Yes, you can activate the child-theme dynamically. To do that follow the steps Move the unzipped child-theme to the themes folder Find the name of the child theme(I guess you already have that) Then Update the options table by update_option(‘stylesheet’, ‘NAME OF THE CHILD THEME’) NOTE: You need to be sure that the active theme … Read more
I’d recommend against using the same database for both. Primarily because the permalink structure would really only work for one, but also because it’s very likely you’d make a change in the dev site that adversely affects your production site. If you decided to attempt something like this, all your media would still be tied … Read more
The directory /wp-content/ of your local installations needs permission to create directory. It is necessary to upload the package and unpack. rights Maybe this should helps, if the user is www-data. chown -R :www-data /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/uploads chown -R :www-data /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/upgrades Or full access to the wp-content directory sudo chmod -R 777 wp-content/ php.ini Also maybe the … Read more
First of all you should use register_activation_hook, this hook runs when a wordpress plugin is installed. I would also replace the call to the $wpdb for inserting post with wp_insert_post. wp_insert_post returns the post ID on success and this can be used to update the option for both page_on_front and show_on_front. function wp_install_defaults( $user_id ) … Read more
The most common thing that happens in the case where you suddenly get a prompt to install WordPress when a site was running OK is that the database connection details were changed. This can be caused by the host changing the database URL, or login or password was changed in the Cpanel; or the connection … Read more
Could you be more specific about the issues you encountered? Have you tried the following? Creating a database for WordPress (if you haven’t yet). Copy the WordPress core files into bradydjohnson.com/blog. Load bradydjohnson.com/blog on your browser to run the WordPress installation.
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 install WordPress wherever you want, stick it in the directory and run the setup. We have a sites.ourcompany.com/client-name setup that works excellently. If you want WordPress on the root domain, public_html should be the appropriate directory for it, unless you want it on /websites/ at which point you can just drag WordPress into … Read more
An understanding of how WP stores content is important. Pages/posts’ content is stored in the database. Media files are stored in the uploads folder, and the pointers to the media (their URLs) are stored in the database. (Media files are just another type of post/page.) The base URL for your site is stored in the … Read more
Absolutely you should. It’s not just common sense from a security POV, it should also be practice as matter of business ethics. Let’s imagine the following scenario: Alice leaves, and her computer is transferred to Bob. Bob didn’t know it, but Alice was into illegal shota porn and left several files tucked away outside of … Read more