Have a look at trellis and bedrock at https://roots.io/, it’s open source. Bedrock allows you to manage wordpress plugins via composer. Trellis is a tool to get you a development and production environment, with ensuring that they behave the same, including deployment workflow. They even explain the Twelve-Factor App methodology, how it relates to WordPress … Read more
you can use this code in functions.php to avoid ssl check : add_filter( ‘http_request_args’, function ( $args ) { $args[‘reject_unsafe_urls’] = false; return $args; }, 999 );
You have two tasks to solve here: 1. Resolve the time-out problem. 2. Update WordPress. Resolve the time-out problem These things don’t just happen because your WP is old. There must be a concrete reason. The three most common reasons are: Not enough memory. Maybe your hosting provider has limited the memory? Try adding the … Read more
How do I keep my Files during WordPress and Theme Updates? Don’t edit core WordPress files or the files of themes or plugins you didn’t develop yourself. If those are updated they are replaced entirely and you will lose any changes you make. If you want to customise the theme, create a Child Theme. If … Read more
It’s not right in front of you, but you can obtain this information from the back end. Go to Tools -> Site Health -> Click on Info tab. Clicking on the first drop-down (‘WordPress’) will get you the current version and the latest.
You would implement this: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/06/29/introducing-update-uri-plugin-header-in-wordpress-5-8/ First you would add a Update URI: header to your plugin with a custom domain. Second, you would add a filter to your plugin, using the filter name update_plugins_{$hostname} where {$hostname} is the value you gave your Update URI: . E.g. Update URI: example.com would have the filter update_plugins_example.com. In … Read more
The problem with changing usernames is that it’s a caching issue and that it breaks /author/username URLs. The URL breaking issue is obvious. The caching issue is less obvious. If you’re using a persistent object cache like memcached or something, then the username will be stored in that cache, and thus it won’t change properly … Read more
There’s not a constant or anything there, but you can install the WP Beta Tester plugin to switch your update stream to the latest nightlies. Once you install this plugin, you can automatically update to the latest “bleeding edge” release from the standard update panel. Just remember, it’s not advised to update production sites to … Read more
I think you’ll have to work via get_plugins(). It will return a list of all plugins in your plugin folder, indexed by plugin location – which is the same as your array index. This is also what the plugin administration table uses. If you only need the data from one file you could also call … Read more
The key to upgrade-proof customizations is to never edit plugins directly. You should use actions and filters to hook into a plugin’s code. Not everything is customizable through these hooks, though. The amount of useful hooks provided depends on the quality of the plugin code. Also see: Hooking in to plugins If you really would … Read more