Go through each plugin file and remove the plugin header. Create a loader.php file. Something like this: <?php /* Plugin Name: Combined Plugin Description: Contains plugin a, plugin b and plugin c */ include dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/plugin-a.php’; include dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/plugin-b.php’; include dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/plugin-c.php’;
To always get latest plugin take for example my plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-file-monitor-plus/ the download link for the latest is: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-file-monitor-plus.1.1.zip but if you remove the version from the download link you always get the latest version: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-file-monitor-plus.zip EDIT: Have you considered keeping a folder of the latest wordpress and plugins unpacked? Then as soon as a … Read more
I got similiar situation where I needed to add page on theme activation and set it as homepage automatically. Here’s how I did it: add_action(‘after_setup_theme’, ‘mytheme_setup’); function mytheme_setup(){ if(get_option(‘page_on_front’)==’0′ && get_option(‘show_on_front’)==’posts’){ // Create homepage $homepage = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘page’, ‘post_title’ => ‘Home’, ‘post_content’ => ”, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘post_author’ => 1 ); // Insert … Read more
I haven’t tested this, but if you would need to find such a solution, I would probably try to do it in the following way by adding a script into the if ( SOME_CHECK_IF_STEP-1_WAS_PASSED ) condition you’ve described above, that would: check the DB for the {$wpdb->prefix}sitemeta table; if it does not exist -> return … Read more
These are my common plugins that I always install on all my blogs: Akismet – Fighting with spam. I use only this plugin and it does the job very well Auto Post Thumbnail – I’m lazy with setting the featured image. This plugin will auto take the 1st image in post content and set it … Read more
This can be somewhat tedious, but hopefully this helps. The less that changes from one environment to the next, the less painful this process will be. Particularly, if the domain, site id, file paths remain the same, the less painful this process will be. This post assumes some knowledge of database management. It is not … Read more
No, there is no security risk. Both files do sanity checks before anything happens. If WordPress is already installed: install-helper.php returns just a blank page. install.php says WordPress is installed and you should log in: You can forbid access to both files with a simple rule in your .htaccess above the permalink rules: RedirectMatch Permanent … Read more
Because I had cut and pasted define(’FS_METHOD’,’direct’); from the web, the incorrect quote characters were pasted into the file. should be define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’); The incorrect quote character also changed the encoding of the file somehow. If anyone has deeper knowledge of this issue please let me know in the comments.
I usually do this when that happens (only locally, not for production) : chown -R nobody:nobody /path/to/wordpress
As I mentioned I was going to be start working on this need immediately so I’m making headway. Given that I’m knocking these down I figured it’s best to start posting them. Still, if someone else can/will post (some of) the parts I haven’t done I’ll be happy to let you copy whatever I’d done … Read more