You may have some problem with JavaScript on your website, with the hardcoded URLs. As I can see you are trying to create the test environment. This is good, and I like people creating the test environments. You need to go to through your code, JavaScript and PHP to seek for the hardcoded URLs. Also … Read more
If it’s a standard WordPress .htaccess file that won’t be your problem. I’m willing to bet you forgot to change the Site URL values when you imported the database. You can either edit it in the options table in your database or even in your wp-config file by adding define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://mainwebsite.com/test’); define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://mainwebsite.com/test’); to it. … Read more
NO.. By static i think you mean a standard (simple) HTML site. wordpress cannot be installed on a subdomain of an already exisiting static website, because there might be some code confilcts. That’s ridiculous…. I can’t imagine GoDaddy gave this answer, contact them yourself. Regards, Bjorn
Can I install a WordPress site locally from a .tar.gz file? This likely depends entirely on the contents of the archive. .tar.gz is just a compression format. You will have to extract it to have any website work correctly but otherwise the particular storage format has no bearing on your question. I created a backup, … Read more
I found a solution: mu-plugins. My code isn’t executed in this early state, but that’s what mu-plugins are for. https://wordpress.org/support/article/must-use-plugins/ This did the trick.
Update: You can use WordPress QI – http://wpquickinstall.com/download/ Not all servers can run SVN, and servers which have problem in WP 5minute install, can’t be cope up with another solution because there is no solution, sometimes server settings are to blame. That said, on a server where everything works fine for a regular installation, WordPress … Read more
Yes, it’s possible to have 2 WP MultiSite installs on the same server – just treat them as 2 separate virtual hosts, put the WP files in separate folders and use separate databases (although you can use the same database server)
I forget exactly if the plugin slug is a reliable method to get the url, it might be in most cases but not all due to how plugins are named. You can query the api @wordpress.org for the plugins xml file which also contains the download link. For example: $plugin_slug = ‘akismet’; $return_plugin_info = “http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/$plugin_slug.xml” … Read more
Error establishing a database connection means a bad password, DB user, DB name or server location (usually localhost) in wp-config.php. Simple as that. Check and check again. Editing wp-config.php « WordPress Codex
This is more of a system configuration question, but still … On the server, everything is locked down based on users and user permissions. You are a user. Your FTP account is a user. Your root account is a user. WordPress itself is a user. So while you as a user might have write permissions … Read more