As of WordPress 4.7.3, auto-updates are triggered whenever the following sequence is successful. All the code is in the file wp-includes/update.php. 1. _maybe_update_core() is called (via the admin_init action). This function is run via the the admin_init action, which executes at the beginning of every admin page before the page is rendered. The update process … Read more
The best reason not to hack core is that whatever you are doing should be reworked as a patch for core instead! Obviously ALL of your code would not make a good patch at all, or at least it rarely would. Instead you need to figure out what hook (action or filter) is missing in … Read more
I would look at finding the IP address of the WordPress website. For example, downloading bbpress manually gives me the link https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.2.5.8.zip which when using ping in command prompt gives me the IP address of 66.155.40.188 (this matches the subdomain of downloads.wordpress.com) I would whitelist the IPs found by @gmazzap as I found them too, … Read more
The mentioned Post Types deal specifically with The Customizer. Custom CSS Post Type The custom_css post type is used to store all themes “Custom CSS” content found in The Customizer under Additional CSS. Each theme gets it’s own post ( whenever the Additional CSS is saved ) with the CSS stored as post_content. Then only … Read more
I’m not sure if all of these are WordPress globals, but I did a quick grep type search of the WordPress files and tried to extract all the globals I could.. This is the list I compiled. It may not be perfect, but should *hopefully* represent a lot of the $GLOBALS keys that WordPress uses … Read more
This makes not that impressive answer, but – none. get_ is suffix usually means function returns something, the_ that function echoes something. wp_ doesn’t carry technical meaning and inconsistency in naming is from many developers participating and lack of movement to unify (moving forward is considered more important than major cleanups of older stuff to … Read more
If you must hack core, consider doing so in a way that makes it extensible for others. Add an Action Hook Nine times out of ten, you could do what it is you wanted if only there was an extra do_action call in a specific file. In that case, add the action, document it, and … Read more
They should do the same thing, but under certain conditions, may not. First of all note: that the codex entry description is misleading that wp-admin/includes/file.php must be included in context else calling get_home_path() will lead to calling an undefined function. Regarding the codex entry, Description Get the absolute filesystem path to the root of the … Read more