I had the same problem. When auto-updating, certain files would get “locked” somehow stopping the rest of the update process. Are you using Windows cache extension for PHP by any chance? Read the following post: http://ruslany.net/2011/04/wincache-and-wordpress-plugin-upgrade-problem/
I think the simplest way to do this would be to give the users a customized Author role when they register. The capabilities of the default Author role are that they can only create and edit their own posts. You’ll have to customize this to enable capabilities for your ‘class’ custom post type, not just … Read more
WP routinely runs into permission issues with updates. Whenever its Filesystem API detects that file operations required cannot be performed it requests login credentials to perform update over FTP or SSH. Since third party automated code cannot make such request interactively that’s the reason it likely just fails. There is number of Upgrade Constants that … Read more
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You need to forward the http:// to https:// to avoid infinite loop. if ($_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO’] == ‘https’) $_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]=’on’;
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
Parts of WordPress use (s)FTP to transfer files. Updates, for example, use (s)FTP. Media uploads do not, at least not unless something has changed in 3.7. If you are connecting to an (s)FTP server you have to provide the credentials that that server needs. Your file permissions won’t come into play until after that connection … Read more
There are three ways you could do this: 1. Upload all into the Media Library The most tiresome way, IMHO, is to upload all the images you got via the media library. 2. Use a plugin You can use plugins like Add From Server to import your images easily to the Media Library 3. WP-CLI … Read more
It’s a very loaded question, I’ll try my best here, keep in mind it’s 4am, so I’m just giving you highlights, not detailed explanations. Linux I’m assuming you’re using a recent version of Ubuntu Change the default SSH port from 22, to something else (/etc/ssh/sshd_config). Either enable AllowGroups or AllowUser in the sshd_config, Install fail2ban … Read more
The UI select element On user-edit.php, you see the drop-down in the UI. The drop down <select> wrapper is hard coded. Then the admin interface does a nifty thing 1) according to the inline comment: // Get the highest/primary role for this user. In fact it is getting the first role, that was assigned to … Read more