for questions regarding permissions of different user groups in wordpress
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WordPress folder ownership issues
Hi I set up wordpress on a VPS and I'm running into two problems:
Either WordPress asks for ftp details in order to update plugins or delete them
or
Through FTP I cannot delete files as I get a ...
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You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page
After long time am here,I have one question.
I Installed my wordpress in localhost and i moved to live,while i forgot the admin password,so i reset it by phpmyadmin(using md5).now i try to login by ...
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How do I get the right permissions for WordPress running Apache on Debian
I'm trying to set up a WordPress site on a LAMP stack on Debian 6.0. From the WordPress documentation (and my experience on shared hosts) the correct permissions should be as follows
All files ...
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Allow Author role to publish one post type and not another
I have two custom post types. One of them, I would like the author role to be able to publish. The other one, I would like for them to "Submit for Review". Any suggestions?
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Warning : tempnam() [<a href='function.tempnam'>function.tempnam</a>]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect
When generating PDF with dompdf I am having this problem in pdf file when viewing file in notepad
Warning : tempnam() [function.tempnam]:
SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The
script whose ...
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How do I apply a class to custom menu items based on user roles
I have a members section on my site and they see specific custom menu items. I'm seeking a way to simply apply a star to the <li> based on it's permission level and what the user's role is.
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What are the correct permissions so WP doesn't ask for FTP credentials if installing plugin?
My nginx user is www-data. If I do su www-data I can create both file and directory.
But when installing plugin I am asked for FTP credentials.
I tried to give the public_html directory 777 ...
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permissions access error
I'm getting this when saving a post after editing:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /wp-admin/post.php on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying ...
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Failed media import
I sat up MAMP on my mac and installed wordpress 3.1. Then, I exported my wordpress.com ina tried to import to my local wordpress.... I ticked import media option and I was hoping that I will get all ...
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Plugins Page - “Page disabled by the administrator”
I've encountered an issue on a site I'm looking after.
The 'admin' account no longer has access to the plugins page, if I try and manually type in the URL to the page, I get the following error:
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Upgrading WordPress (File permission group owner)
I have a problem when i want to upgrade Wordpress or install plugin via the Admin.
It's say that I don't have the permission to write. but I can upload images and other things... but i cannot install ...
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Problem Installing a Premium Theme— File Permission Issue on a Mac, Local Machine?
I tried to install a premium theme called Superb. I'm new to WordPress and I'm having a bit of a problem. I think that it has to do with permission settings, but I'm not sure. This is my situation:
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Allow member to have access to custom post type only. Permission to only edit their own posts
OK I'm looking for the best way to attack this.
I'm very comfortable with PHP and making custom post types with custom meta fields in WordPress.
Here is what I'm looking at doing:
User registers ...
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What are the recommended database permissions for WordPress?
I just got WP running on my own server. I am not trying to lock things down more. What permissions should the db user have to my WP db?
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MySQL Database User: Which Privileges are needed?
The short installation instruction for WordPress ("5 Minutes") state that:
Create a database for WordPress on your web server, as well as a MySQL user who has all privileges for accessing and ...
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How to Control user registrations directly on sub-sites
Does anybody have Idea to enable a wordpress based multisite user to automatically get access to all sub-sites under same Multi site ?
If I have A Multi-site installation(Also Buddypress enabled) at ...
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Manage custom menu for an Editor?
I've a problem with permission. Is there a specific permission to let an user with Editor Role, manage the custom menu of a theme, and only this options?
The item that is under Appereance -> Menu, to ...
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Of thumbnails and folder permissions
I am trying to make TimThumb work on my domain. After having tried and tested every step on this troubleshooting guide, it finally came down to folder permissions. The thumbnail cache is owned by my ...
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Recommended File Permissions
Hey guys, I have been spending the longest time trying to figure out this issue. I would like to know what the file permissions should look like in WordPress in order to use the autoupdate feature. As ...
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Applying roles to an admin sub-menu (eg Appearance -> Menus)
Long time lurker, but first time poster. I've searched Google extensively and just can't seem to come up with an answer on this problem.
I use Justin Tadlock's excellent 'Members' plugin for roles ...
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Privilege escalation bugs in 2.9?
Are there any known privilege escalation bugs in WP 2.9 to be careful for?
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How can I make my custom templates respect permissions?
I use the Members plugin to manage permissions on my site. For standard templates, it works great - when the user doesn't have permission to see a page, they get the following message:
Sorry, but ...
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Creating Custom Roles for use on a WordPress Multi-site Instance?
We have a large site that consists of a number of smaller websites. We are looking at replacing our current CMS with WordPress.
The only problem is that we need to create a custom role (kind of in ...
