permissions

Moved WordPress Directory – Having access issues now

Per the recommended Hardening WordPress and other resources this is what you should look for in your folder permissions: Root Directory / 0755 .htaccess /.htaccess 0644 wp-admin/index.php /wp-admin/index.php 0644 Based on what you’ve described about having to enter your FTP credentials to update/upload plugins I believe you have a ownership/group issue with your files. When … Read more

bypassing permission error for a plugin’s page

While there can be checks inside page the page itself is added via API call, like add_options_page() (there are several analogous functions that add pages to different parts of admin). This call includes capability argument. In your case either the extension in question is poorly coded and does something strange around there or your user … Read more

page creator to leave comments ONLY

There’s probably a way to do this via one of the meta cap filters, but off the top of my head you could use the comments_open filter to check if the currently logged in user is the author of the post and change the output of the comments_open() function accordingly. I’m on the patio, so … Read more

Should I change the default file and folder permissions?

As the article suggests, it’s only a ‘possible’ permissions scheme. So there is no quick answer to ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in terms of settings the correct permission for files/folders in your particular hosting environment. My suggestion is to keep it as ‘out-of-the-box’ unless you run into an issue which requires you to adjust permissions in … Read more

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