It would seem you have covered all your bases and your site is working as it should. An additional step I have found useful is to verify hard coded paths within your exported SQL file because problems might not appear for weeks after the move. I have moved a sites a few times and it … Read more
It’s probable that your site was hacked. And that will take some manual (‘by-hand’) investigation. Lots of googles on how to clean a hacked site. But, in general change all site/hosting credentials to strong passwords: hosting, ftp, database, WP users look for WP admin level users that shouldn’t be there look at every file for … Read more
These fields have the keys ‘blogname’ and ‘blogdescription’ respectively in the options table. I’m not sure exactly why you need to do this as it seems like a priority to secure your site and be able to update it through the dashboard yourself, but you can update them easily from functions.php with update_option, e.g.: update_option( … Read more
As in this question and answer, and because of your huge .htaccess file it’s like you have a .htaccess directive that’s causing your apache to not process that file or understand its type. As mentioned by @Rup, using the default WordPress .htaccess, and checking other directories for rogue .htaccess files will likely resolve this issue. … Read more
Those “definable settings” are constants. WordPress defines its default constants in this file. If a constant definition is wrapped in a defined() check, like this: if ( ! defined( ‘WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY’ ) ) { define( ‘WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY’, true ); } Then it means you can define it first in the wp-config.php file (or, apparently, this framework’s config … Read more
Yes, the plugin can override it, use action, init with a function to disable it. for example add_action(init,’my_disable_revision’); function my_disable_revision () { define( ‘BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT’, ‘profile’ ); }
I would be very hesitant in having the same database for staging and live as any changes to the database would affect both sites (especially when using software like WordPress where there is configuration in the database). The only time that I would think of pointing to the live database would be if I was … Read more
There’re some things you should not play around with, until you really know core inside out and one of those things are the Path constants that can be set in your wp-config.php. Here’s how I do it. Note, that it’s uncommented, so it doesn’t trigger and WP uses its default. # define( ‘WP_CONTENT_DIR_NAME’, ‘wp-content’ ); … Read more
I would consider it somewhat safe since that’s where your database connection information is also stored. One could easily ruin your website by deleting your whole database if they had access to that file. There are a couple of things you can do to increase security: Move the wp-config file one level outside the root. … Read more
Is it possible to give drop-ins in their own subdirectory of wp-content instead? No, it is not possible without editing the core WordPress code.