Total newbie here. I’m a pretty good user of applications, but have never written a single line of code. Installed XAMPP and WP, purchased a template from Envato and plan on working on it over the weekend. Followed instructions for both WP and XAMPP, and all seems to be fine. Running solely on local machine, … Read more
When wordpress asks for FTP information to upgrade, you type it in and then it seems to store it for future use (for future upgrades, and maybe also for media uploads?) Where does it store these details? Is it in a file? In the database? I’m trying to figure out what information is being used … Read more
I had asked a related question on Super User: A use case of a system “receiving” files over FTP would be, for example, the way WordPress plugins are installed via 1-click where WordPress initiates a file transfer to the local Linux box from the remote WordPress plugin repository using ftp(s) More specifically this screen: My … Read more
It has been many years now with WordPress 2, WordPress 3 and now even WordPress 4 which is expected to be released shortly that WordPress Publishing Platform does not support SFTP as the option to upload themes, download upgrades and configure plugins? Many other platforms such as MovableType and ExpressionEngine and Umbraco are also enterprise … Read more
I installed my website using an installer – fantastico for a quick install. Just a few days ago, I started getting a weird error in w3tc plugin and it would ask me to update via ftp as you can see below: I found out the file permissions for htaccess have been changed to 444 No … Read more
Every time I attempt to upload a plugin or theme, I am asked for the FTP password. Is there a way to save this within WordPress, or do I have to enter it every time? Thanks. 2 s 2 You can save this information on your wp-config.php file: define(‘FTP_HOST’, ‘ftp_host’); define(‘FTP_USER’, ‘ftp_username’); define(‘FTP_PASS’, ‘ftp_password’); More … Read more
I’m trying to import a xml file (from a previous wordpress theme) into a new wordpress theme. The problem is that the xml file is 46mb much bigger than the wordpress 8mb limit. Anyone have any advice/recommendations on how to import this file? Thanks apagey 10 s 10 OPTION 1: If a WordPress WXR file, … Read more
I had to upload many files massive and directly to /wp-content/uploads/[year]/[month]/ but those files does not appears in Dashboard>Media>Library Is there a way to update or refresh it to load those files or it’s simply happening because it should have been writen also in database and I avoided it? In this case, is there a … Read more
i’ve installed a LAMP server on my ubunutu 11.04. i’ve installed wordpress and hooked it right with the MySQL db. i’ve changed the permissions of the www-data group to read and write files. every thing is seems to work and i can manage the site through the admin panel, but i can’t install plugins cause … Read more
This question already has answers here: Closed 9 years ago. Possible Duplicate: wordpress on localhost lamp doesn’t let me install plugins I just started working locally with WordPress. Trying to update theme/plugins I get asked for my FTP credentials and I get really confused…what the heck is my FTP credentials when working locally? 1 Set … Read more
