Generally speaking outdated plugins are more of a risk, but themes should be updated. The “heavier” the theme (more javascript, custom functions etc) the more likely it is to become a risk when out of date. Frankly it’s one good reason to code lean/mean themes yourself and not buy of the shelf, but that’s just … Read more
You need to set the permissions locally in a UNIX environment: sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/wordpress Also perhaps: chown -R nobody:nobody /path/to/wordpress Also try setting the FTP creds in the wp-config.php file: define( ‘FTP_USER’, ‘username’ ); define( ‘FTP_PASS’, ‘password’ ); define( ‘FTP_HOST’, ‘ftp.example.org:21’ ); Use “admin” or “root” for user and leave the password blank.
I clearly didn’t know how to google, as this page already explains how to do exactly what I wanted. Adapting it a bit, for it to work with different post types, I came up with the following: add_action(‘do_meta_boxes’, ‘replace_featured_image_box’); function replace_featured_image_box() { $post_types = array(‘bwps’, ‘page’, ‘post’); foreach( $post_types as $post_type ) { remove_meta_box( ‘postimagediv’, … Read more
Styles are loaded in the order specified in the underlying code. It’s usually under control of the theme. If a 2nd style file has the same style defined, then the 2nd one overwrites the ‘parameters’ of the 1st style. This is as designed. Note that it is not a good idea to edit a theme’s … Read more
It sounds like your theme is using deprecated PHP code functions, and those are causing the errors. Since the theme author is (at best) unresponsive, I’d suggest moving to a different theme.
Something went seriously wrong here. Is there a chance you can repeat the process on behalf of your client? Try to use Duplicator plugin it really helps with migrations. Or do a manual mysql dump on old hosting and import the database yourself. This definitely went wrong during the database migration.
It appears that there is not a simple way of doing this. Looking around, I see 2 ways you could do something like this. The first, and in my opinion less elegant way would be to inject HTML into the section’s description parameter. You could then wire some JS to your custom HTML to make … Read more
Issues with dynamic widget in theme customizer
If you’re in JS you can’t use PHP (<?php ?>), you need to another way to get a PHP variable into JS. The normal way with WordPress is to use wp_localize_script(). wp_localize_script( ‘wpse_274344’, ‘myScriptObject’, array( ‘markerImageUrl’ => get_theme_file_uri( ‘/img/mapmarker.png’ ), ) ); Add that code after your call to wp_enqueue_script() or wp_register_script(). Replace wpse_274344 with … Read more
If the theme doesn’t have a dedicated admin page for customizing home page, most probably that text should be customizable via WordPress customizer: