The directory /wp-content/ of your local installations needs permission to create directory. It is necessary to upload the package and unpack. rights Maybe this should helps, if the user is www-data. chown -R :www-data /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/uploads chown -R :www-data /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/upgrades Or full access to the wp-content directory sudo chmod -R 777 wp-content/ php.ini Also maybe the … Read more
What you are trying to do will not work as you local PCs will most likely get different IP addresses from time to time which will mean that you will have to reconfigure your server. Your solution is much simpler…. just host the development site on your server, use the hosts file of your PCs … Read more
For wp-content folder you need to add WP_CONTENT_DIR with path to this folder to each wp-config.php file of each your sites. All of these WP_CONTENT_DIR constants should have the same path to one folder. Read more about it here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Moving_wp-content To share the same database, you just need to setup the same database settings in … Read more
The problem was that I didn’t completely clone the wp site, and I forgot to install the plugin that I used to manage user roles The plugin is Members (“User Role Editor by Members – Best User, Role and Capability Management Plugin for WordPress”) by MemberPress, and there I can allow the roles that I … Read more
The correct approach is to use HTTPS everywhere, and to migrate to SSL properly: remove the Really Simple SSL plugin change your sites URL option to the https version search replace your database so all content uses the https URL via WP CLI or a search replace tool ( do not use an SQL query … Read more
What you’re seeing are probably calls from Pingbacks. If you don’t want them you can either disable them globally in the settings or just for a specific post in the “Discussion” metabox in the sidebar of that post.
I don’t have a ton of experience with manage wp but I am going to suggest an alternative for setting up a local site based on a live site. I would suggest using the plugin “All In One Migration” https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/ Install the plugin on the live, select “export” it will generate a file for you. … Read more
I think what you need to do to get the local install back up and running is either edit some database files manually, or make a couple changes to the wpconfig.php file in the root of your wp install. check out this codex page for instructions on editting this file. You will need to make … Read more
Check the ‘siteurl’ and ‘home’ values in your wp_options table, and update those URLs to: http://localhost:8000/wordpress
Hopefully I can be of a little help. Taking a look at the InstandWP website, it appears to be an install version of WordPress that installs into a directory, and then contains all settings etc for the site to run in a local environment. I am not sure on the file structure of InstantWP, so … Read more