As far as I understand it is not related to specific permissions – Auto Update overall requires that files owner matches user Apache runs under. If that is not the case it falls back to other filesystem methods (FTP, SSH) and so prompts for password. You can define credentials in constants in wp-config.php so you … Read more
You want the admin_menu hook, rather than admin_init. Also, you shouldn’t use anonymous functions. Instead, use: function wpse51004_add_menu_page() { add_menu_page(‘Some Page’, ‘Some Page’, ‘manage_options’, ‘some-slug’, ‘wpse51004_some_page_callback’); }; add_action(‘admin_menu’, ‘wpse51004_add_menu_page’); function wpse51004_some_page_callback() { echo ‘Hello, world!’; }
@Lea, This error happens when PHP (WordPress) can’t write to the file. This is caused by not having write permissions or the username or group that PHP (WordPress) is running under doesn’t have permission to write to the file. 755 permissions will allow WordPress write permissions when PHP is running as the username under most … Read more
The issue was because I wasn’t generating and sending a nonce value with the request. In order to generate a nonce value. Localize the value of a wp_create_nonce(‘wp_rest’) function call. wp_localize_script(‘application’, ‘api’, array( ‘root’ => esc_url_raw(rest_url()), ‘nonce’ => wp_create_nonce(‘wp_rest’) )); This will then be accessible to the window object of the browser which can be … Read more
Plugins that would do this are: WPFront User Role Editor — free & paid both do what you’re asking User Role User Role and Capabilities Or you can write it into your theme’s functions.php consult Roles & Capabilities in the WP Codex for the details and read this easy-to-understand guide on how to add those … Read more
Here’s the code from wp-admin/includes/file.php: if ( ! $method && function_exists(‘getmyuid’) && function_exists(‘fileowner’) ){ if ( !$context ) $context = WP_CONTENT_DIR; // If the directory doesn’t exist (wp-content/languages) then use the parent directory // as we’ll create it. if ( WP_LANG_DIR == $context && ! is_dir( $context ) ) $context = dirname( $context ); $context … Read more
The problem, as the error description indicates, is permissions. Based on that tutorial, nginx is running under the www-data user, but WP folders are owned by deployer. If you change the ownership of your $WP_ROOT to www-data:www-data, you will find that you can update your WP. I’m not amazing at security, so there may be … Read more
Hardening WordPress on the WordPress Codex is a very good article on how to secure your WordPress blog, which goes into quite some detail on file permissions, as well as some other methods of securing WP.
This is a read-write permission error. Fix this by changing the “wp-content” folder’s permissions to 755. If this doesn’t work checked the wp-config.php file and if it’s not already defined, add define(‘WP_TEMP_DIR’, ABSPATH . ‘wp-content/’);
This commonly occurs when exporting views/triggers/procedures from one database or server to another as the user that created that object no longer exists. You have two options: 1. Change the DEFINER This is possibly easiest to do when initially importing your database objects, by removing any DEFINER statements from the dump. Changing the definer later is a … Read more