… instead of saving the file on the server I would like to display browser dialog box to save the file with this content on local disk The answer is that that is not what the Filesystem API does. You are trying to, or hoping to, use it incorrectly. It doesn’t work that way. The … Read more
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How to Copy Upload Image using WP_Filesystem_Direct
I couldn’t define an “accurate” method to implement the form I desired, so I have settled on the admin_notices action as a viable solution. The Result Illustrations View when in Theme Editor of the associated theme. The default style.css is selected, but is not editable. An error message is shown if Update File button is … Read more
As @Buttered_Toast and @Sébastien Serre mentioned I first need to save file to a local directory before unzipping. So here is my final code: $source=”http://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/ona-creative.1.0.0.zip”; $file = get_theme_root() . “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/” . $slug . ‘.zip’; file_put_contents( $file, file_get_contents( $source )); $unzipfile = unzip_file( $file, get_theme_root() );
Is there a way to use WP filesystem without credentials when FS_METHOD is NOT set to direct? Short answer: No.
How does WordPress access theme and plugin files through its editor?
First, remove that bit up front about calling WP_Filesystem(); by itself. You need to request_filesystem_credentials first, before invoking that. Second, you need to use the $wp_filesystem->wp_themes_dir(‘themename’) function call to get the proper “remote” directory, in order to be able to properly call the put_contents() function with the right filename. The “remote” directory won’t necessarily match … Read more
If you haven’t already figured this out, as you have admin access to the dashboard, just go into Appearance->Theme Editor then add some PHP into the theme’s footer.php or functions.php to echo out the location of the install on the server.
It’s really hard to give you a 100% solid answer, because there is not much info in your question, but… Let me do some educated guesses… The files that are mentioned in your question are very often used by attackers to put some malware code. Why? Almost all WP sites have these files. Most of … Read more