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plugins_url(”,FILE) != WP_PLUGIN_URL with sym links

When writing a plugin, I define a few constants including the path to the plugin’s root folder, and its “name” as used in some admin hooks: define(‘WPSE_102681_PLUGIN_NAME’, basename(dirname(__FILE__)) . “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/” . basename(__FILE__)); I’ve found that plugins_url() happily takes that constant, which is useful when referencing files from subfolders of the plugin, like so: echo plugins_url(‘images/information.png’, … Read more

moving server can not login

I have solved this strange problem by myself. Share my experience to all. Find these 2 lines in /etc/php.ini upload_max_filesize 16M post_max_size 16M Add common before, so that change as: ;upload_max_filesize 16M ;post_max_size 16M And final, do not forget restart apache: service httpd restart via SSH. Then I could login into my site under linux … Read more

Transferring contact form input to an email account without using an email-proxy

The CF7 plugin uses WordPress built-in wp_mail() function which itself uses the PHPMailer class (github repo). The PHPMail github documentation states, The PHP mail() function usually sends via a local mail server, typically fronted by a sendmail binary on Linux, BSD and OS X platforms, however, Windows usually doesn’t include a local mail server; PHPMailer’s … Read more

WordPress can’t find temporary folder, but folder it’s looking at has correct permissions

Connect to your server via SSH. and remove System temporaty files: rm -rf /tmp/* Delete files that are older than 12 days from the /tmp and /var/tmp/ directories: find /tmp -type f -mtime +12 -exec rm {} \; find /var/tmp -type f -mtime +12 -exec rm {} \; Delete temporary files created by Plesk and … Read more

How to configure WP filesystem access in Linux (Ubuntu Server)?

Ideally, you install php-suexec, so that the php script runs as the file’s owner. This allows the direct method to be used without requiring any permission changes.

Editing WordPress Permissions in LAMP – Ubuntu 11.10

I think that setting all to 777 is not the most secure option. Basically, my favourite is to change the wordpress to the webserver’s owner. Being: sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/ So that the webserver is responsible for handling changes. Also, you can change the rights to 755 for the whole /var/www branch sudo chmod … Read more

security+best practices: root or www-data on a wordpress content folder?

I fixed this by running this command: cd /var/www/html/ sudo chown -Rv www-data:www-data * Changed ownership back to www-data instead of root. This article helped me: http://johnqunknown.me/fixing-wordpress-a-mini-tutorial/

Why is group ownership with rwx permissions not enough?

duplicate? At least you can find lots of (possible) explainations and (possible) solutions here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/640409/can-i-install-update-wordpress-plugins-without-providing-ftp-access

WordPress monthly upload directory owner set to root

I’ve had the same problem, and in my case it was the WordPress cronjob. I was calling the wp-cron.php as a root cron job, and this script also generates the monthly upload folder. If you call wp-cron.php via cronjob you need to do this as the web server user (or i.e. in Plesk the site … Read more

Hosting multiple WordPress sites on single server – best practices?

Based on your needs, yes: you should probably be using a Network (WordPress with MultiSite enabled). All network sites run the same version of WordPress Each network site can activate its own Plugins. You can explicitly allow each site to manage its own Plugins. Each network site can have access to different Themes (though you … Read more

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