I finally found a solution to this problem and thought I would post my solution for anyone looking for assistance. My main website sits on /public_html on my server I was installing new sites on a subdomain (e.g. newwebsite.com.au) in a sub-directory: /public_html/sites/newwebsite.com.au Even though /public_html/sites/newwebsite.com.au was the root directory for the subdomain: newwebsite.com.au for … Read more
Set server_name to the IP address, eg: server { listen 80; server_name 0.1.2.3; // other stuff } You could also leave it out, because the default in ngninx is an empty string. But then all those pieces in WordPress that don’t validate $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] and similar values … will just break. See ticket #25239 for the … Read more
If you have access to your host commandline and are running linux, why not pair wp_cli with a bash script. In this way you can have a fairly defined standard set of plugins to activate per install. wp plugin activate plugin_a wp plugin activate plugin_b wp plugin activate plugin_c Here’s a WP_CLI and YT demo … Read more
I’ve installed WordPress on my virtual server running Windows Server 2008 R2. Installation was easy, no troubles. I installed PHP using Web Platform Installer. PHP 5.3 performs well on IIS7 and you can also use WP super cache to increase performance. There haven’t been any downsides for me so far 🙂
Sure. wp_install_defaults() is a pluggable function. (As are wp_new_blog_notification() and wp_upgrade(), in case you ever need to override those too.) # in wp-config.php if ( defined(‘WP_INSTALLING’) && WP_INSTALLING ) { include_once dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/wp-content/install.php’; } # in wp-content/install.php function wp_install_defaults($user_id) { global $wpdb, $wp_rewrite, $current_site, $table_prefix; // do whatever you want here… }
The basic idea should work– change the prefix in both wp-config.php and in the database itself. What isn’t covered would be cases where the prefix is used in other contexts such as when used as part of a “meta” key. Those cases you would need to trace down one by one. You could also have … Read more
01 Database Security 01.01 change your database prefix during install or after install this is security by obscurity but helps with automated scripts that could run over all databases to inject bad code in your content like scripts, iframes or display: bits 01.02 install a database backup plugin to automate the backup e.g. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/ Read … Read more
Searching for another thing, just stumbled upon this gem by @anmari 🙂 You have to put a Dropin plugin at the root of wp-content. Should be named install.php and contain a new version of the pluggable function wp_install_defaults. I used this gist for testing. And the only modification from the original function is the default … Read more
headdesk Permissions on all WordPress files should be 644. Permissions on all WordPress directories should be 755. Exceptions: The uploads directory may need to be 775 or 777, depending on your server configuration. wp-config.php should be 600, 640, or 644, whatever is the lowest number that works. Never, ever, give higher permissions than those. That … Read more
I recently started using the Plugin Central plugin for this and it works like a charm. I just install Plugin Central with every initial WP install, keep a text file where all of the direct links to my favorite plugin zip downloads are listed, and paste these links into Plugin Central. My 16 favorite plugins … Read more