After looking a little further I found an article on the Webmaster forums page. It has nothing to do with your hosting provider as I earlier suggested. It is 100% Google. The reason is to assist webmasters in protecting their sites by keeping up to date services. They need to make a few improvements since … Read more
There are actually 3 users that IIS access files with on .NET sites: IIS_IUSRS, IUSR, and NETWORK SERVICE Grant all 3 IIS users Read & Execute, List Folder Contents, Read permissions on the entire WP folder For file management (e.g. plugin/theme installation & updates), grant all 3 of the IIS users Full Control on the … Read more
Yes, key (prefixed with string identifying it as transient) is used as option name when value is inserted in database.
Looking on Trac I found a ticket that discusses exactly this issue: Administrator should be able to change usernames This is what it all boils down to: Changing usernames could break permalinks To prevent this a lot more than just changing the username in the DB would need to be done. E.g. redirection from old … Read more
Set the constant DISALLOW_FILE_MODS to TRUE in your wp-config.php: const DISALLOW_FILE_MODS = TRUE; See the Codex for background information: Setting this constant also disables the Plugin and Theme editor (i.e. you don’t need to set DISALLOW_FILE_MODS and DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT, as on its own DISALLOW_FILE_MODS will have the same effect). It will also prevent installing or uninstalling … Read more
You can Disable HTTP Calls by adding this in your wp-config.php define( ‘WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNAL’, TRUE ); This will disable/block all external HTTP requests and will make website alot faster. And then you can whitelist domains that you don’t want to block. define( ‘WP_ACCESSIBLE_HOSTS’, ‘example.com, domain.com’ );
It should be relatively safe to chmod it to 777 for as long as you need to in order to upgrade, and then change back to what it was before. Generally speaking, 755 is the recommended directory permission.
As so often, WP-CLI already has you covered: wp core update –version=3.8 ../latest.zip Have a look here for more details: http://wp-cli.org/commands/core/update/
How to disable core auto updates but enable plugins and themes auto updates If you want to stop the autoupdates of the WordPress core, but to enable them for your Plugins and/or Themes, you can add these lines in the wp-config.php file: Stop the core auto updates: define( ‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, false ); Then Enable the plugins/themes: … Read more
I’m not aware of any solutions for iterating through and automatically updating your list of plug-ins, but my guess is that any system that can automatically update WordPress itself can be modified to update everything in fairly short order. That said, I know of two good ways to update WordPress automatically: WP Remote This is … Read more