Hm, core WP files are usually die properly if opened directly. It probably slipped developers to include check in this one or something. The simple ways to fix this (and not really WP-specific) would be to: configure PHP on server to not display errors by default; restrict access to file with .htaccess or other means.
Pam, It sounds like you are facing some major challenges, but I would highly recommend not messing with the table prefix. Doing so will lead to a series of problems, which will require hack after hack to remedy leaving you with a substantial mess of a WordPress installation. There are some other things you can … Read more
This question has been asked many many times before. Here’s the Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL The easiest thing to do is add a couple of lines to your wp-config.php define(‘WP_HOME’,’http://example.com’); define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’http://example.com’);
Basically, they’re hashing salts. They’re used to make the results of hashing much less predictable. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography) for info on salts. AUTH is used for the /wp-admin authentication cookie, SECURE_AUTH is for the same when using SSL, LOGGED_IN is used for identification to the “front-end” of the site. NONCE is used for the nonces that … Read more
Add this: define( ‘PLUGIN_DIR’, ABSPATH . ‘/ext’ );
wp-config.php is suggested place for such definitions, because at any point later they might get replaced by default values during loading. See Editing wp-config.php in Codex for thorough instructions. Also worth noting that it’s commonly said like add to the end, but really definitions should go above this line: /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy … Read more
How can I make wordpress suppress mysql errors?
Reasons this might happen: When WP checks the tables exist and they don’t If the DB connection fails The database is unreachable A DESCRIBE query on the tables fails, be it permissions or access based If there is an error recorded in the wpdb object while setting up initial variables in wp_set_wpdb_vars When ms_load_current_site_and_network returns … Read more
No, that should be enough. Elementor sets its base URL ELEMENTOR_URL from plugins_url plugins_url uses WP_PLUGIN_URL which is set in default-constants.php WP_PLUGIN_URL is constructed from WP_CONTENT_URL which is constructed from get_option(‘siteurl’) there’s a default options_siteurl filter called _config_wp_siteurl that overrides the value fetched from the database with WP_SITEURL if set. So assuming you don’t have … Read more
You might want to look into creating a MU (Must Use) plugin, see WordPress Codex. Within this file, you can include your library (using require) or you could just tweak your library file a bit and use it directly as the MU plugin. The session_start() and ob_start() functions worked for me with ever-so-brief testing, but … Read more