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Sending form data via PHPMailer - How to action PHP script from a form

Some easy points on offer... I wish to action a PHP script from a WordPress page but where is the best place to store the script? The script works perfectly fine using a non-WordPress environment in ...
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Permalink Issues by Installing WordPress in Subdirectory / Subfolder

I installed WP in subfolder /cms and it runs live without subfolder. When I use /%postname%/ as permalink I get 404 error on my site. My Server supported mod_rewrite. My Code wp-config.php ...
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Allow Access To Subfolder Of HTML For Logged In Visitors

have a wordpress site installed in the root folder. Beneath the root is a /docs folder with a bunch of older html files. I'd like to allow only logged in wordpress users to be able to have access to ...
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Change upload directory and url

I am developing a plugin and I changed the upload directory of the v.3.5 media uploader to this: \wp-content\plugins\deixto\cle. I used the following function and filter: function ...
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How to point my domain to a Wordpress install in a sub-directory?

I have recently been re-designed a client's website (whose website is - for example purposes - mywebsite.co.uk)/ I have developed the new website (a heavily modified wordpress install) in a ...
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WP white screen of death after duping a site that works fine on same server

I have simply duped a site that runs absolutely fine on a separate domain into a sub directory of another domain for development purposes. I have zipped the /httpdocs/ directory excluding cache and ...
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Opendir and Wordpress Path

I wrote a simple function to get the contents in a folder (called templates) in my wordpress plugin, but am having problems getting the path to work (thus the function always dies). My question is: ...
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Menu Custom link - using relative link when WP is in a subdirectory

I tend to develop sites in a subdirectory, and I tend to use a fair amount of custom links in my menu ( the "Custom Links" option in the WP admin Appearance > Menus section) to display archive pages. ...
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Upload an image at frontend > Create direction and/or rename filename possible?

I have a form for a non-profit-club, that publish posts + up to 20 images. The image-path will be writen in a custom-field. Images are uploaded. Ok, now i want to rename the pictures or (much better) ...
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Preventing collisions between permalinks and subdirectories [duplicate]

I've deployed a WordPress installation on the root of my site. This site also has a few subdirectories that should remain accessible, such as /somefolder/. I've configured WordPress to use ...
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wp-content will move but not rename

define( 'WP_CONTENT_DIR', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/new-wp-content-name' ); define('WP_CONTENT_URL', 'http://www.site.com/new-wp-content-name'); This works so long as I keep the folder called ...
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Is there some way to put a theme's header.php and footer.php in a subdir [duplicate]

and still call them with get_header() / get_footer()? For example {themedir}/templates/headers/header.php of {themedir}/templates/footers/footer.php With templates this is easy, but I can't get it ...
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bloginfo('template_directory') img src

I am lazy loading some images with URLs which are added via custom fields. The lazy load plugin I'm using requires a place-holder image in the src attribute and the actual image in data-original. ...
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Plugin folder isn't accessible for plugins

When a plugin needs to include a file from it's own folder it can't be read. It returns the 404 theme page. For example. If a plugin installs some CSS to the header of a theme like so: <link ...
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Infamous admin login redirect

I have a multisite installed with the domain mapping plugin. All the domains work fine, except... One of the sites is on a subdirectory (the main site running Magento). I added a symlink to the ...
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Categorising themes by folders in backend

I want to organize themes like: wp-content/themes/themeshop/theme1 wp-content/themes/themeshop/theme2 wp-content/themes/themeshop/theme3 Now from my understanding, this organization works ...
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Order posts by meta value then by random with pagination

Firstly thank you in advance for your help. I am creating a directory site. My client needs featured directory listings to appear before standard listing but they also need to be in a random order ...
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WP Page and Subdirectory with same name

I have a subdirectory within my WP installation called labs. I created a WP page called labs as well. When a user hits mydomain.com/labs/ I want them to load up the WP page. But instead it's loading ...
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Get WP Install Directory

I have a theme which - I was quite proud of myself! - I designed to be installed in wp sites where wp is on root level. Then half my users installed the theme on a mysite.com*/wordpress/* ! ...and ...
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WordPress MU with Multi-level URL's

I have a bit of a complex question. Is it possible to create a multi-level URL with WordPress MU. By this I mean so that I would have the install on xyz.example.com, I could then create ...
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Moving WP from /blog to root directory

I'm moving a WordPress installation from /blog to the root directory on the server. There weren't more than ten blog posts in the blog, but I'm concerned about Google finding dead urls. Is there an ...
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Disable plugin visibility at the plugin directory

Hello I have recently pushed my plugin's files to WordPress SVN trunk. Unfortunately, it's not a ready to use release. I don't want anybody accidentally download this half-baked 'release'. Can I ...
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Checking for page templates in child theme

I have a simple problem I'm hoping someone can shed some light on. I have a child theme with a custom page template and I'm simply trying to check weather or not the template is in use. Under normal ...
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Multiple domains for multiple single installs

I've done my share of searching, but apparently my search-fu is failing me, because I haven't found anything that really seems to fit my circumstance. Also, I don't want to just try random solutions ...
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Setting up two separate blogs while using WordPress as a CMS

I need to get this set up ASAP and cannot seem to figure out how to do this after searching and searching. I am using a WordPress install mostly as a CMS. I would like to have two separate areas on ...
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Mapping Subdomains in Wordpress to give the appearance of a localised site, best approach?

I am building a classifieds website and am using Wordpress for the functionality of user accounts, Paypal integration, custom taxonomies and of course super flexible custom post types for the ...
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Cannot access non-wordpress subdirectories as wordpress overrides them with a 404 error

I refer to this question previously asked and not suitably answered: Wordpress overriding actual subdirectories and also Non "Wordpress" pages/code getting 404 error. I have the same ...
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Unwanted redirect in admin area

I have a strange behaviour on my backend. This is possible due to the way my WordPress is located. I installed it in a VirtualBox, using Ubuntu from the standard repository (i.e., apt-get install ...
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Plugin could not be deleted due to an error: Unable to locate WordPress Plugin directory

I have moved my Wordpress site to a new host, because of performance problems on the old host. I have updated wp-config.php with the new host's values, but when I try to delete a plugin from ...
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How to execute WordPress as though it is in the root folder while it is installed in a subdirectory?

I have a folder and file structure already in place for a site to which I am inserting WordPress. My goal is to execute WP at the root level (/) when a visitor just visits the domain without a path, ...
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subdirectory install breaking existing links

I've had this issue several times now. While building a site, including some content, I keep wordpress in a subdirectory (say, /wordpress/). When putting it live, I move/copy 3 files out of the dir ...
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Can't Access Subdirectory

I've moved my blog from http://leghumped.com/blog to http://leghumped.com/ and now I can't access my /images directory. I've tried every combination of rules from trawling for people with the same ...
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Building a Data Intensive Website with Wordpress

I am an intemediate website builder and have been working with wordpress for a few years. I am attempting to build a website (for myself) that is data intensive. All I've built to date are sites ...
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Giving WordPress Its Own Directory together with index.html

I want to power my website from http://www.example.com and not from http://www.example.com/foldername I've completed this task and this is working but before people actually get to the WordPress ...
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How to do Domain Mapping to Subdirectories?

Does Wordpress MU not allow domain mapping to subdirectories, such as example.com/blog? Wordpress.com doesn't allow this. I couldn't find an option to do this in WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin. ...
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where is the path to plugin folder stored? [closed]

today i duplicated one wordpress instance of mine to be able to archive one of them and to further renew the other one: 1) i cloned the DB and changed the values accordingly in wp-config.php 2) i ...
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File and directory permissions

I installed latest WordPress 3.5 in my CentOS server. When I tried accessing http://example.com/wp-includes/, I received a listing of the directory: (Index of wp-includes). I added the following code ...
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Will permalinks work if blog is transferred to subdirectory?

How should I transfer my WordPress blog from the root of my domain to a sub-directory? If everything including root in an installment of WP 3.2.1 were moved to a sub-directory, would the default ...
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Moving a WP Multisite to a subdirectory

Firstly, I've read a number of posts on this process. However, for various reasons, the process remains difficult to implement or troubleshoot for lack of even abstracted examples, or maybe too ...
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wordpress automatically created a new 2013/01 subdirectory [closed]

apparently for the new year, wordpress created a new subdirectory(s) '2013/01' in the wp-content/uploads folder. this had the unintended result of breaking all the image links on the site. Does ...
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Retrieve the template directory URI via global or get_template_directory_uri() every time?

One Wordpress function I happen to use frequently is get_template_directory_uri(). While I tried to minimize or avoid its use where I can, I still happen to have more than one call to this function in ...
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Accessing WordPress installation in its own directory at domain root

I am using this tutorial Giving WordPress Its Own Directory to launch a WordPress (installed in a sub folder called wordpress) by using example.com instead of example.com/wordpress. It says to copy ...
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What is the best way to get directory path for wp-config.php?

I am developer of the plugin mapsmarker.com which also offers several APIs which can be accessed directly (eg www.mapsmarker.com/wp-content/plugins/leaflet-maps-marker/leaflet-geojson.php?marker=1) ...
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Disable directory browsing of uploads folder

I'm using Wordpress as a CMS for a simple website. I want to prevent users from being able to browse the directories such as the wp-content/uploads folder or any directories of my theme. My host does ...
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Plugins will only be installed with 777 on folder. Solution?

I'm 100% not the first asking this question, yet I want to have this question be answered to my situation.. I got Wordpress installed on my server (I host it at Versio.nl) and configured whole ...
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get_template_directory() vs bloginfo( 'template_directory' ) vs TEMPLATEPATH

I was reading this article: Common WordPress Development Mistakes and How to Fix Them, and in it, they author says: Getting the theme location: If you are using TEMPLATEPATH or bloginfo( ...
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Add multiple plugin directories

The task You can register add additional Themes directories using register_theme_directory() for your WP installation. Sadly core doesn't deliver with the same functionality for plugins. We already ...
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why there is a large file named core in wpmu's directory?

why the file named core is here? can i delete it? ls -lh total 37M -rw-rw-r-- 1 hugemeow pg 16 2012-03-04 04:22 a.php -rw------- 1 hugemeow pg 30M 2012-10-16 10:41 core // this is the large ...
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Moved Wordpress site to new server, directory permissions not working correctly

I built a Wordpress on my hosting space and then transferred it my clients server - followed all the instructions and pretty much everything works fine. The ONLY problem I have is that the directory ...
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How to restrict access to wp-content, wp-includes and all sub-folders

after searching I didn't find an answer still confused of how do I hide the -> wp-content --> uploads --> themes --> plugins -> wp-includes in browser. What I want is when viewer browse some like ...

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