How do I transfer user passwords from one WordPress site to another?

Yes and no wp_salt is the function you’re thinking of: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/4.8/src/wp-includes/pluggable.php#L1988 Your theory should be correct, copying the passwords over via SQL, and making sure all the salts are the same, then clearing cookies and trying to login, should do the trick. However, if we look at the code in the function, there are filters … Read more

Should I change wp-config for SSL?

You better use a .htaccess file, where you force https with: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301] The file goes in the root folder of your WP installation. If there is any, put this code on the beginning of the existing file. And you can then change the settings in the WP … Read more

WordPress – Promoting A Dev Build In A Subdirectory To Production / Root Directory

…just point Apache’s root directory to /public_html/development If you do this, I would seriously consider renaming “development” to “live” or something more meaningful, otherwise it’s going to get confusing going forward. Then you can create an .htaccess file in the document root with just the following mod_rewrite directive to rewrite everything to the /live subdirectory … Read more