Website Got Hacked – Fixed – Now Cannot Activate Theme

Issue 1: Look at your dashboard; you’re not logged in as an administrator, and as a result you don’t have the privileges and can’t activate themes or plugins. With adminer or phpmyadmin, check your wp_usermeta table for your user and be sure the wp_capabilities key is for an admin: a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;s:1:”1″;} Or, add a new admin … Read more

FTP or Cpanel installation of WordPress

Unless the hosting provider adds in some custom plugins, there should be no difference in the actual installation of WordPress when using a cPanel 1-click option or uploading directly via FTP. Once the site is installed, there is not really any more interaction with cPanel, other than being able to easily delete the database and … Read more

How to use rsync over FTP

You don’t. rsync can’t do that for you, it is a protocol of its own and doesn’t work over FTP. You might, however, want to try csync. IIRC it provides rsync-like behaviour over HTTP. I can’t comment on whether it works over FTP, you’ll have to try it.

WordPress FTP Error: “Failed to connect to FTP Server”

After two days of head banging, found out it’s the SELinux giving me the issues. Usually i got a message from it saying what and why was blocked, provided with a command to enable the action that SELinux was preventing. Like when apache wasn’t able to write logs to my virtual host folder… This time … Read more

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)