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copy wordpress site files on new server

I wrote a process that I use when I move a WP site from one place to another. I keep tweaking it, but the process has worked well for me many times. There are plugins that purport to automate the move, but they didn’t work for me, or they required premium ($) features to complete … Read more

SSH Upgrade Problem

This Question was answered on ServerFault by the asker. I am adding his answer here as a community wiki. Here is the full solution, thanks to michaelmior for his help, it got me half way. Run this command to generate keys: ssh-keygen You’ll get this output: Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which … Read more

Does WP read itself?

The user agent you are seeing in logs is consistent with defaults of WordPress HTTP API: ‘WordPress/’ . $wp_version . ‘; ‘ . get_bloginfo( ‘url’ ) You can verify that requests are coming from your WordPress installation by using Core Control plugin’s HTTP logging module. But from this information it is impossible to say why … Read more

External cron job firing too many times

You might be calling wp-cron.php every 15 minutes, but your cron task is set to happen every 5 minutes! $schedules[“5min”] = array( ‘interval’ => 5*60, ‘display’ => __(‘Once every 5 minutes’)); … wp_schedule_event( time(), ‘5min’, ‘isa_add_every_five_minutes’ ); Change it instead to every 15 minutes

what are the chmod rights recommended to give for every folders of wordpress projects

http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress#File_Permissions / – The root WordPress directory: all files should be writable only by your user account, except .htaccess if you want WordPress to automatically generate rewrite rules for you. /wp-admin/ – The WordPress administration area: all files should be writable only by your user account. /wp-includes/ – The bulk of WordPress application logic: all … Read more

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