If you are doing it for security purpose you can use following steps: add index.php file to each folder that you don’t want to show the content of. <?php // Just leave the index.php file blank And second way to reduce insecurity is to use if(!defined(‘ABSPATH’)){ exit; } inside every php files to no access … Read more
Ok, I just checked the WP CLI documentation. There are 3 important steps: Download WordPress: (I would use it with the options –path and –locale, but those are optional) wp core download Create a proper wp-config.php: wp config create –dbname=… –dbuser=… –dbpass=… –dbhost=… Install WordPress: wp core install –url=… –title=… –admin_user=… –admin_email=… Now there are … Read more
You can safely place your robot.txt file as well as the sitemap.xml file into your websites root directory and NOT the WordPress directory. When a robot visits your site, the first place it checks is http://sitename.com/robots.txt, hence you want to keep these files at the root of your domain. You can also disallow what the … Read more
WordPress has a built-in setting for this that can be set in the Settings > Permalinks screen. Choose “Custom Structure” and add in your desired prefix/subdirectory at the start of that input field with a slash after it. /subdirectory/%postname%
What I would do here is first rename the folder to something else, this way if something breaks you can just rename it back. After a couple if days if all is well on the site just delete it. Backup folders and files usually cause more issues than they are worth. If you haven’t needed … Read more
Hate to self promote BUT 😉 My WordPress SEO plugin actually fixes this by not generating a static file at all. It works in all circumstances.
I do not see that in the default wordpress install files – it may have been written by a plugin. You can probably remove it.
Thanks to @BrianFegter comment, I was able to find and fix the problem. It was just a problem of case-sensitivity. My development environment, http://serverpress.com/products/desktopserver/ , doesn’t have a problem with finding the pdf when the file name was caps and the anchor tag link was in lower case. My hosting provider seems to be the … Read more
I kept on searching, and finally found something that fixed this issue. For those who are using CentOs 7 in combination with Plesk 12: The issue is with SELinux. When it’s used in Enforcing mode (which is the default), wp-content does not show itself via FTP. Switching it to Permissive mode or disabling SELinux altogether … Read more
You first need to ask yourself: Will this theme ever be maintained or used by other people than me? If so, read on, if not, you should only build code that will eventually make sense to you when getting back to this project after a few years. If you are creating a theme that will … Read more