The right way to go about creating a WordPress site from a static site which has WordPress installs in its subdirectory

Well it depends what is suitable for you, as you said : I’ve added in two WordPress installs in subdirectories, one being a blog page and another being an eCommerce site and now you want to make your static site dynamic with WordPress, you have options, either you can merge all your sites in one … Read more

How to rename the WordPress wp-login.php running on IIS6?

I wrote a blog post a while back, this is a quick and dirty hack to make hackers think your wp-login.php is a 404 page. http://dave.kz/hide-your-wp-login-page-from-hackers/. (From blog post) Basically, I’ve added… header(“HTTP/1.0 404 File Not Found”); to the top of the wp-login.php page. Hopefully the attacker is looking for a 200 HTTP response. In … Read more

Trying to increase WP Memory Limit

Try adding to wp-includes/default-constants.php You’ll probably see the default values of 40M starting around line #20, change these values. My setup is as follows: // set memory limits if ( !defined(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’) ) { if ( is_multisite() ) { define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘256M’); } else { define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘256M’); } }

Why do I get this “peer’s certificate issuer not recognised” error when trying to install a theme?

From your question, it might appear that this problem happens with any theme or plugin that you try to install, but most likely this is not the case — as only themes or plugins that are coded to establish a secure HTTPS connection with a peer should be able to potentially trigger such an error … Read more

Should I go for Multisite or separate WP Installation?

Generally choosing separate WP installations means that your websites won’t have anything in common. Choosing Multisite installation enables you some sort of centralization. Your blogs usually are separate (eg. different domains / themes), but they may share something. According to your description you might want consider a single installation. It is possible to create the … Read more

After being hacked Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in 404.php on line 1

“Generally this happens when someone has mistakenly put index.php from a theme in the WP install folder, where it overwrites the index.php that is the main WordPress file. Download WordPress again, and take the one file, index.php from its root folder, replacing the file you now have as index.php It sometimes means someone has loaded … Read more