You could create a custom post type ‘student’, with post thumbnails for the images. The post title would be their name, post content would be the blurb. If the code scares you, there are plugins to assist. Taxonomies are also available to you, which operate like categories and tags, but can be any set of … Read more
Wp-content contains plugins and themes. So, if I can read and write into those files, I could add malicious code very easily. This malicious code can then do interesting things. You are basically inviting a lot of trouble. As for not understanding permissions: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/04/unix-file-and-directory-permissions/ http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
You can disable this by going to Settings -> Media If you uncheck the setting all the future media uploads will directly into wp-content/uploads folder. Why create WP these folders? WP doesn’t create empty folders, I assume those folders are created when you have uploaded media and now they they are empty because you might … Read more
The function plugin_dir_path has an misleading name, it doesn’t include a file from plugin directory, it just include a file from the same directory of the file passed as argument. When you call include( plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) . ‘test-plugin/needed_file.php’); from a file in theme directory, you are just trying to include a file from theme … Read more
You can make use of the Filesystem API, especially the copy_dir() function – source – does seem to be what you are looking for. Take a look at the docblock from the above source link for a little bit more information: /** * Copies a directory from one location to another via the WordPress Filesystem … Read more
The forward slash works on every operating system supported by PHP. Yes, on Windows too. It is also more readable and easier to type, so there is no need to use the constant. See the tickets #20849 and #15598 for related discussion on Trac.
Let your blogs share the same user table. In your blogs wp-config.php files add: define(‘CUSTOM_USER_TABLE’, $table_prefix . ‘my_users’); define(‘CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE’, $table_prefix . ‘my_usermeta’); Important note from Codex: Please note that permissions in the user_meta tables are stored with the table prefix of the site. So in the CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE one must have entries for each site using … Read more
You can’t. The simple reason is that wp-content doesn’t even have to exist, and if it exists, it might not be writable. On systems with an automatic deployment and rollbacks, the upload directory is usually completely separated from the WordPress directory, and you cannot create a new directory on the same level. Summary: If you … Read more
First of all, in WordPress here the best option to solve my problem is using Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies. To do that, I’ve created a file named “my_custom_posts.php” and put it inside the theme’s root folder. Then I’ve included this file in my “functions.php” using require(‘my_custom_posts.php’); You can also put your custom post … Read more
Serve both sites from the same installation. In your wp-config.php include the settings depending on $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]. Example for a complete wp-config.php: define( ‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’ ); define( ‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’ ); define( ‘DB_COLLATE’, ‘utf8_general_ci’ ); if ( ‘example.net’ === $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] ) // .net domain include ‘example.net.config.php’; elseif ( ‘example.com’ === $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] ) // .com domain include ‘example.com.config.php’; … Read more