There are two defines in wp-config.php of WordPress website: define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”); There are several things which are most commonly misunderstood. Names of constants in those defines, might suggest that they are related to the database itself. They are not. They are related to tables within the database. Database creation is totally independent from … Read more
You don’t really need to remove these files. It’s much easier to just block access to them. If you are using pretty URL’s you already have an .htaccess file. Using .htaccess to block the files is secure and you only have to add a directive once. Blocking files is done by adding a directive to … Read more
This error is generated in wp-login.php , it happens if server is unable to set cookies, this can happen due to several reasons, one of the common issue is: output being sent before setting up of cookies. Try out following options: Update WordPress core, if it is not up to date change theme, if you … Read more
I don’t think there is a universal URL hook. There are a lot of hooks and I may have missed it, but I don’t think there is one. You can look through the hooks at adambrown.info. There are a lot of URL hooks, but not a universal one. If I may suggest another solution: Log … Read more
I know it’s old but I fixed it! i installed WP MU in a subfolder. htaccess: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /YOUR_SUBFOLDER RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^ – [L] RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L] RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L] RewriteRule … Read more
For me it was changing old domain entries in database tables wp_blogs and wp_site to the new domain of the multisite’s main domain. I haven’t done this after the migration to a new domain.
It turns out that all WP_DEBUG_LOG does is: ini_set( ‘log_errors’, 1 ); ini_set( ‘error_log’, WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/debug.log’ ); So, if you want to change the log location for WP_DEBUG_LOG in a plugin or theme, webaware’s answer is best. If you just want to have it changed within wp-config.php you can replace define( ‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, true ); … Read more
Here is how I do it and I haven’t come across anything better than this. I keep a different version of wp-config.php file under version control and then keep a file one directory above which holds all the database credentials and salts/keys. Also this way, I am able to distinguish between the type of setup … Read more
This is just, how I understood the idea of the WordPress File API. If it is wrong, please downvote 🙂 Okay. If you upload a file, this file has an owner. If you upload your file with FTP, you login and the file will be owned by the FTP user. Since you have the credentials, … Read more
The best way is to not do that. There’s no need for a plugin file to ever include the wp-config.php. You’re doing it backwards. WordPress loads plugins. Plugins don’t load WordPress.