»your user account« describes the system user of the remote host. Depending on the environment of your hosting provider, this is typically the same as the basic FTP account. In fact, it’s a user on an operating system. So yes, you should be able to change it via FTP. As there are typically many users … Read more
Problem was, that the FTP user does not equal the Apache / webserver user. I just had to (recursively) own the wordpress directory /var/www for the www-data/webserver user: sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www Please refer to this link for further info about the owner of a directory.
Manually updating WordPress fixes this issue. Upgrading WordPress Core Manually (How To) WordFence Reference First create a full backup of your website. This is very important in case you make a mistake. Download the newest WordPress ZIP file from wordpress.org. Unzip the file into a directory on your local machine or in a separate directory … Read more
In this context /path/to/site means the absolute path to the root of the content directory of the website. You can find this by navigating to the directory where you installed wordpress and running the command pwd (assuming you are on linux). That will output the path you are looking for. By default in many linux/apache … Read more
You don’t need to echo your script code you can tell your footer.php file to proceed with JavaScript with if statement if user is logged in: <?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ): ?> // Your JavaScript code here <?php endif; ?>
Yes, you can use the same filter, just remove the delete key of the $actions array. If you want to remove the “delete” link for the plugin “myplugin”, you’d go for something like this: add_filter(“plugin_action_links”, function($actions, $plugin_file, $plugin_data, $context) { if($plugin_file == “myplugin/myplugin.php”) { unset($actions[“delete”]); } return $actions; }, 10, 4); Obviously, you cannot put … Read more
If you originally installed via FTP/Cpanel/CLI the directory and files may have a different “owner” belonging to “different group” than those installed via WordPress. One possible solution: If you have server access try deactivating Guttenberg and rename its plugin directory to something else. Then reinstall the plugin through WordPress – if this works your Dashboard … Read more
You cannot make yourself an admin in the admin section of WordPress. That would be a privilege escalation – and a serious security issue. You have only two options: Get FTP access, and either create an admin user per PHP, or just export the site to another host. Try a content scraping program and get … Read more
All files should be owned by the actual user’s account, not the user account used for the httpd process. Group ownership is irrelevant unless there are specific group requirements for the web-server process permissions checking. This is not usually the case. All directories should be 755 or 750. All files should be 644 or 640. … Read more
This is happening because you are not using nonces. Because you have not provided a nonce with the request, WordPress is treating you as if you are an unauthorized/non-logged in user. This is because wordpress has no way of knowing/validating the users state. To get this working, you will have to generate a nonce like … Read more