On my local machine, I have multiple wordpress versions installed so I can test the themes and plugins I develop. I was wondering if I could somehow create a central wp-content folder and database, which are linked to each version of wordpress, so I don’t have to continually copy my projects between the them? 2 … Read more
I tried to find and answer but even though the problem is common I haven’t been able to fix it, WP keeps asking me for the FTP info on my local LAMP environment when trying to install, delete or update themes and plugins. I have set my local www folder permissions like this: drwxrwsr-x 3 … Read more
I installed a new WP site on local machine with wamp server. When a new user registers it gets the “registration successful” message but a mail with the password is never sent. Also checked the junk folder. What can be the cause? 2 Answers 2 Probably your local setup since Wamp does NOT come with … Read more
It appears that WordPress is designed to have websites constructed and maintained online – in the live website. I see some posts here that indicate some people are doing such development offline – in Localhost. But the effort to move a website online – especially for updates – appears to be complex, somewhat manual, and … Read more
Tried to install a wordpress plugin on my local machine: To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed. If you do not remember your credentials, you should contact your web host. Hostname 127.0.0.1 FTP Username macusername FTP Password macusernamepassword Connection Type Connection Type FTP … Read more
I’ve just installed XAMPP on Mac OSX and when trying to install a theme or plugin in WP admin, I’m getting this screen. I’ve never gotten this on my shared hosting account. how to get rid of it on localhost? 5 s 5 Have you tried updating the permissions for your WordPress files to 755 … Read more
I´m trying to set up a local development environment for me to work on a WordPress multisite that I´m building. I use Mamp Pro with default ports (Apache: 80, MySQL: 3306), and I also added a new host with the same domain name as the page will have when going live. So, now when I … Read more
i’ve downloaded a wordpress web to my local machine and tried setting it up. the problem: when trying to login, wordpress will always redirect to the online url. the only way i found was changing the siteurl manually in phpmyadmin to my local machine’s ip address. is there a better solution? the problem about doing … Read more
I recently set up a live WordPress site on my local environment through Duplicator. I can access the wp-admin but I cannot access the main site as wp redirects the site from http to https automatically. I checked the .htaccess, but no luck. I checked the wp_options table and it has an entry of the … Read more
Use Case I’ve been experimenting with Chrome’s Dev Tools Workspace features. It includes the ability to edit a file directly in Dev Tools and have the saved stylesheet refresh itself (or even compile and then refresh!). However, as documented in the StackOverflow question “Chrome’s “Auto-Reload Generated CSS” not reloading page when SASS recompiles CSS”, URL … Read more
