Did you check the Apache capability for it? If Not yet, open the httpd.conf of your Apache directory and remove the ‘#’ that’s prepended to the line ‘LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so’ plus change the term ‘AllowOverride None’ to ‘AllowOverride All’. That did the trick for me after a many hours of searching…
Hmmm sometimes FTP clients will show that you are the owner of the file but it doesn’t explain to you that other users don’t have read / write permissions. So even if you changed something in the your footer.php another user (WordPress in this case) will not see it. Did you change permissions or CHMOD … Read more
yes, of course i just figured it out. chown = username chgrp = www-data in other words: chown -R username:www-data dir_containing_all_wordpress/
As per the following from http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress#File_Permissions /wp-content/ User-supplied content: intended to be completely writable by all users (owner/user, group, and public). Within /wp-content/ you will find: /wp-content/themes/ Theme files. If you want to use the built-in theme editor, all files need to be group writable. If you do not want to use the built-in theme … Read more
Changing the db prefix on a WordPress installation requires more than simply changing the prefix on the tables. There are also options that use the db prefix in the options tables. You’ll need to update them as well. Specifically the wp_user_capabilties and the wp_user_level keys in the {db_prefix}_options table. See the following tutorial for further … Read more
This is right. You can use WordPress in exactly the same way as you were using your OLD CMS. WordPress is being used by Top newspapers / magazines and websites and they’ve editors / authors and bloggers and ofcourse they have groups & roles. CNN, Mashabale, TechCrunch, etc are all based on WordPress. There are … Read more
How would you go about this? I see this is an old question and that you found a solution with an existing plugin. However, since this is a development StackExchange, it’s probably better if there’s an answer that explains how to accomplish the stated goals without the need for a third-party plugin. Written Answer WordPress … Read more
IP address validation during authentication – for a selected user only Here’s a way to hook into the authenticate filter and validate the IP address for a given user during authentication. The user can see the invalid IP address error like shown here: /** * Validate IP Address During Authentication – For A Given User … Read more
Hook into a post status transition so that any time a post is published or updated, there’s a check to see if the author is an admin. If so, update the author to a non-admin. First, get the ID of the non-admin user you want to set as the author. // change author ID to … Read more
No, to set a users role you have to have the admin role. Authors cannot change or set roles An important thing to keep in mind is that it isn’t an editor who logs in, it’s a user with the edit role. Roles don’t login, they’re just collections of privileges assigned to users. Is there … Read more