Questions tagged [wordpress]
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How to access WordPress site from another machine in same network
I created a WordPress web site & now I want to give access permission to other users in same network to view my web site. I used WAMP server & it is online. When I access it from another ...
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WordPress and WinSCP permissions: Getting Upload of file ... was successful, but error occurred while setting the permissions and/or timestamp
I have an EC2 instance and in it I use WordPress. To edit WordPress plugins and themes files I use WinSCP.
The problem is that if I try to edit a file via WinSCP I get the following error message:
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Web crawler with converte links option
I would like to crawl a backup site I lost access to. The site is backed up in subdomain.somesite.com while the links on the web page are www.subdomain.com
this leads to the following situation:
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Scheduling WordPress auto-updates
Is it possible to schedule when WordPress does its automatic updates? I don't want my site going down for an update during peak times or really any time during the day. I wish there was an option in ...
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How do I move a CMS installation from root to subdirectory (nginx)
I've inadvertently installed Wordpress into the root of my Ubuntu nginx server. How do I move this installation from root to a subdirectory called /blog? ex. mysite.com/blog
What I have now:
server {...
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Why would Chrome rewrite links within pages from the http:// to https:// scheme?
I'm completely stumped with this issue:
When visiting a website which is a virtual host, without SSL support and with no reference to any https:// scheme within its database, or any file within it's ...
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Why my website giving "The site ahead contains harmful programs" error? [closed]
My site is: hints.steptoinstall.com. It's build using Wordpress.
My lastest Post is: PHP – Current Year for Copyright, after making this post for the last 5 days I'm getting The site ahead contains ...
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Make static site from wordpress site using bash
I have tried a few other scripts that can make a static version of a wordpress site but none of them are designed for bulk sites and I haven't found any that will just serve a static version while ...
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website hosting on my local server using mamp in mac
I want to host a wordpress site locally on my MAMP server.
This is the procedure I followed:
1.Installed the duplicator plugin on the site and created the site package.
2.Downloaded the installer and ...
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Wordpress & ElasticSearch - or any enterprise search
Let me be a bit boring and tell you what I've been struggling to do ;)
90K posts - each post is an app from iTunes or Android Play. Each post has custom fields - pricing, free, release date, etc… - ...
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wordpress working by domain name but not by ip
I am having a hard time with a wordpress, if I am accessing it by moneythehardway.com it does display everything properly.
But if I am trying to access by 37.59.126.247/money it does display with ...
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Access Ubuntu/Apache WordPress on a LAN
I have successfully installed WP 4 on Ubuntu 14.04.
From the Linux machine I can access the WP site by browsing to asus/wp_site_name. When I go to a PC or a Mac on the same LAN and browse to ...
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Setup https and http on wordpress nginx
[root@serv01 nginx]# cat nginx.conf
# For more information on configuration, see:
# * Official English Documentation: http://nginx.org/en/docs/
# * Official Russian Documentation: http://nginx.org/...
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Cannot install WordPress ($_POST is empty)
I am trying to install WordPress on my site under http://example.com/blog. What I did so far is:
Download and unzip the most recent version of WordPress
Upload the contents of the wordpress folder to ...
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Do you need ftp access to build/administer a wordpress account
I just installed wordpress for a new website for our company. The person that will be building and maintaining the site asks for FTP connection data.
While I have no real reason not to give it to him ...
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XAMPP Apache error AH01599: Cannot get media type from 'x-httpd-php53'
I'm trying to setup Xampp on a Mac (OSX 10.10.2), its setup and normal PHP runs, however when I try and run a Wordpress site the PHP code doesn't execute, it just prints out in the browser and I keep ...
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“file://” links working on one WordPress site but not the other. Both running on same server
I have 2 different WordPress sites on the same server. Both of them contain links to files on our internal network, which are linked using the file:// protocol.
Here is the problem: On one of the ...
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In IIS Webserver, How to create a folder in the root directory to host download files?
I have Windows server 2012 r2 and an IIS webserver setup hosting 2 wordpress websites from the same dynamic ip address.
Everything is working great and as expected.
I am trying to figure out how ...
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How to limit file creation permissions to certain file extensions in Linux?
I have an apache webserver running as user apache, and the application I'm hosting (Wordpress) requires certain folders with write permissions by the user apache, I want to limit the write permissions ...
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how to inspect the footer of a website with Firefox GCLI plugin?
How do I use GCLI to view the footer for a wordpress blog? Typically, the footer isn't viewable because as you scroll down, older items are loaded to the page. While not infinite, for practical ...
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Change wordpress port number in nginx
I have a wordpress installation with nginx. It's currently use port 80. But I'd like to change it to something else. So I found /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress file and changed the following two ...
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How to make titles bold based on date in WordPress?
I am having a WordPress site with static front page and it displays featured and recent posts....I am not using any widgets to achieve this, just using a custom home page template.
My requirement is ...
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Apache couldn't be started because port 8888 is in use by some other software
I am having an issue starting up MAMP, when I attemp it, I get this error message:
Apache couldn't be started because port 8888 is in use by some other software
I have been trying for the last 2 ...
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Some files/directories are not listed by ProFTPD server
I just inherited a WordPress site that a client had half-developed by another web developer.
The site is hosted on a Strato dedicated server and has got a Plesk installed on it.
I just made an FTP ...
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Share local Wordpress site with client
I am using MAMP Pro to develop Wordpress sites on my local machine. I would like to show my progress to a client. MAMP Pro requires to have a third party Dynamic DNS service, I am using no-ip.com. I'm ...
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DDoS Virus infection (as a unix service) on a Debian 8 VM Webserver
I maintain a (fully updated) Wordpress for a student team on a Virtual Machine on ~okeanos service for a couple of years. Today, the helpdesk informed me that i am conducting DDoS attacks, which - of ...
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How to get the hostname for my site hosted by wordpress?
I got a link which is like www.example.com/wp-login.php where I can login using the given username and password but I can't connect with filezilla client using hostname as www.example.com or example....
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Images look pixelated in all browsers
I have a WordPress site and I recently noticed a strange effect on the site’s images. They look pixelated despite the perfect size as they are not stretched even if I download the image and open it in ...
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WAMP 2.5 hangs my Windows 7 SP1 laptop as soon as it starts
I am using WAMP 2.5 with local folder (localhost/websitename) setting.
Every time I open WAMP (when internet is connected) it hangs my laptop for a number of minutes and the only option I have, is to ...
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PHP exec() causing memory usage to stay high?
I am quite new to using exec() command in php. I am using it along with this script called phantomJS (http://phantomjs.org/) to run a process which creates a pdf of my website's pages.
The problem is,...
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What does it mean when there are many POST requests to /wp-login.php in Apache logs?
The messages are directed toward the WordPress site on my server. These are coming from the access_log, and I don't know if this should worry me or not.
There are well over a hundred lines of the ...
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Wordpress inital configuration using Lynx
Note: posting here, because ServerFault's description is "For professional administrators". Also chat seems unavailable currently.
I am trying a stab at making a website. I installed Ubuntu Server 14....
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Cannot ping or nslookup local Wordpress
Hi I have created a local WordPress blog using lamp server. I can ping and nslookup localhost, however; i cannot do the same with localhost/WordPress
Help please
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Access WordPress MySQL database remotely
I want to access a MySql database on a foreign host. I have permission from the owner, but they are clueless with regards to technology (and it seems, so am I).
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How do I change the footer in a Wordpress Customizr page? [closed]
The Customizr theme in Wordpress has lots of options that are fun to play with, but I'm stuck on one point. All my pages have a footer with a default copyright notice that I want to change, and ...
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Amazon EC2 Instance Continually Loses Connectivity
I am currently running wordpress on an Amazon ec2 instance, which runs fine with no problems most of the time, but occasionally outside connection to the instance shuts down. I can't access it over ...
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Adding some commands from e.g. WordPress to Notepad++
I code a lot with NP++ for WordPress. My question is, is it possible (or an extension available) to have several commands (do_shortcode(); if_has_thumbnail; etc...) pre-defined? Like suggestions ?
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Can't reach intranet WordPress site
To paraphrase the old joke, I think I have right field so screwed up no one can play it anymore.
I installed WordPress on our intranet dev server (IIS 7, Win 2008 R2) using the web platform installer....
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In Sublime Text 2, how do I highlight any code which is between <?php and ?>
I'm coding in php for a Wordpress project at the moment and using Sublime Text 2. It's great, however, I would love to be able to quickly see what is php and what is html (also javascript, but that is ...
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How to live preview a WordPress website using Adobe Brackets?
Adobe Brackets has a live preview feature which lets me view a HTML webpage whilst I'm working on the .css and .html files.
I'm now starting work on a WordPress website which involves .html, .css, ....
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Trying to make my localhost wordpress installation accessible from the internet using Ngrok. Error 403
I have a wordpress installation of a website I'm developing on my mac (OSX 10.6). I can access it and make edits just fine through localhost/username/Sites/websitefolder/.
However, I need to make it ...
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oEmbed in email [duplicate]
I'm emailing someone a draft version of a WordPress post. The post includes youtube videos and tweets. In WordPress to get the YouTube video to embeds, or the tweet to display properly you just paste ...
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Virus on my Webserver: How to get rid of it?
I did a website for my clients and recently stumbled upon a lot of issues with it - i guess it got hacked. (It's based on the latest wordpress version, and for a while the index.php file always got ...
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404 error on a previously installed Wordpress Site in IIS 8 [closed]
I am hosting a Wordpress site on IIS 8 with php and fastcgi installed.
The problem is that i had to reinstall the IIS completely to install the exchange server (because it needs the Default website ...
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Feature to find out keywords used in Wordpress blogs
In wordpress blog, are there any feature or tool available to find out which are the keywords used to search in blogs?
E.g. If anyone has used words like sam, flowers, college etc in blogs I have ...
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Mirroring a wordpress website with wget
I'm trying to download a wordpress web-site, my blog actually, and to get the php files as well. So far I've tried -
wget -rkp -l3 -np -nH --cut-dirs=1 http://www.sharons.org.uk/
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Setting up an apache virtual host with working override
I've been fighting this for many hours now, and I'm very frustrated. Apache just doesn't make sense to me; I'd greatly appreciate any advice. Please read through what I've written, as I've read ...
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I've ported my website locally installed to Internet. Is it secure?
Sorry about that ugly title, but I've managed to share my Wordpress installed locally (using WAMP server) to internet, just porting my 80 port to the public 1234 port in my router configuration.
So, ...
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How do I set up a virtualhost with wordpress on lamp?
Running Apache 2.4.6, PHP 5.5.8 on Ubuntu 12.04
Here's (in addition to default) my papertower config in sites-available: http://pastebin.com/rb8BPKh6
When I restart, I get this message: http://...
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How to make a MySQL database on Ubuntu server? [closed]
I am trying to make a WordPress blog and install WP manually, but the MySQL databases are giving me headaches. Can someone explain what is MySQL and how to make a database? I am using Ubuntu Server ...
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