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What is the best php version to use with WordPress?
IMPORTANT EDIT
This has unknowingly came to my attention as it slipped my mind, PHP 5.4 have already reach EOL and the last security support was stopped on the 14th of September 2015.
According to ...
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Restoring Wordpress posts from database only
Re-install a new copy of wordpress and then put in the credentials to your database in the new install.
If you install wordpress and try to load the domain with no database attached, it will start ...
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Htaccess for Wordpess set on single subdomain
My suggestion is: use the same standard .htaccess configuration for Wordpress on a single domain in each Wordpress directory.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ...
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Install and configure WordPress while old site is still active
While this might be not the easiest task for a beginner, it is very well possible – with a little help from some plugins.
In a similar scenario I would usually install WordPress under a subdomain. ...
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Why does do_robots() Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php by default?
First: have a read-up on robots.txt, if you haven't. Another good reference is this one from Yoast.
The sample you posted:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Sitemap: ...
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Install and configure WordPress while old site is still active
Assuming your domain is mydomain.org. Instead of installing WordPress under a different domain (wordpress.mydomain.org) you could install WordPress on your local machine (using XAMPP MAMP or a virtual ...
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What is the best php version to use with WordPress?
To run WordPress we recommend your host supports:
PHP version 5.6 or greater
MySQL version 5.5 or greater
Note: If you are in a legacy environment where you only have older PHP or MySQL versions, ...
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How to write files in hosting in admin dashboard?
You basically have two options:
Use any of the available File Manager plugins for WordPress. Just Google them, literally that phrase I just used.
Implement a custom PHP code in your theme or custom ...
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How to include externally hosted images into a gallery block
What you want to do is already baked into WordPress but just not frequently used.
In either the classic or the block editor, click to add an image.
Once you have the block upon, instead of uploading ...
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What is the best php version to use with WordPress?
All the answers here don't take into account an actual, functioning Wordpress environment, but use arguments about end-of-life/support (that is, age). Who cares? What one really wants is stability and ...
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Choose specific kind of hosting service for WordPress?
WordPress will run on a toaster these days, it really doesn't have high requirements. Just make sure it's a Linux server, any comapny worth anything will have PHP and mySQL up to date enough for ...
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Wordpress-site can be reached on x.x.x.x/index.php - but not directly on the IP without index.php
Is this normal behaviour?
Yes. On a default Apache install, only index.html is set as the DirectoryIndex (the default setting).
Either in the appropriate <VirtualHost> container, or main ...
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How can I view or FTP into my Wordpress site hosted on AWS?
Yes this question probably belongs in an AWS SO somewhere.
But yes you're on the right track, you'd most likely look under EC2 for "instances"
If there's only one instance, your life will be ...
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Why does do_robots() Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php by default?
the truth is that probably nothing should be blocked in robots.txt by core (this is IIRC was joost's position abot the matter) as wordpress is an open platform and front end content and styling might ...
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Difference between WordPress stand alone & through host gator
Wordpress.com is just one of the companies that offers you specialized wordpress hosting. all companies that do that come with some restrictions or surprising pricing plans when you compare to "...
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Wordpress out of memory allocated issue?
If you are on any environment you did not personally set up, you may not have the permissions to override the php.ini file.
Also some plugins can manually do:
ini_set( 'memory_limit', '512M');
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hosting a wordpress site locally to my team
You can create a local server with the installing linux and then you can add your project to that server so that all your team member which are connected with same network are can view the site.
When ...
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looking for a hosting company for wordpress
WordPress is extremely lenient to the hosting requirements. It is likely one of the most forgiving CMSes to run on the least capable PHP hosts.
That said there are advantages to some of hosts that ...
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Adding video to a Wordpress website
So, I don't know what kind of videos you are including that would break the rules of these websites (especially Vimeo, I think they are pretty lenient on what you can upload there) but in general, I ...
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Is Windows hosting a bad idea for wp?
This is a partially subjective question, so it may get closed on that basis. Answer given here may be somewhat subjective but tries to cover the main considerations.
Short Answer
The short answer is ...
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The Cost of Installing Custom Themes
This is because WordPress.com is unique in this regard.
If you purchase hosting and install WordPress on that host, you can then put a theme or plugins in the relevant folders, hundreds of themes, or ...
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WP Admin missing icons, numerous JavaScript errors, but only when SCRIPT_DEBUG is false
Do you load own javascripts into the admin? If i recall correctly, if SCRIPT_DEBUG is set to true, the javascripts are not concenated, but loaded seperately. So if a custom javascript doesn't play ...
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simple-job-board Plugin throws an error on live server
Most probably you're using very old PHP version.
Why do I think so? Because the first warning says that __DIR__ is unrecognized. It's one of PHPs magical constants and it should contain the directory ...
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How to move a WordPress Localhost straight to an online site?
You're confusing WordPress.com and WordPress.org. The .org is what is used for hosting your own WordPress website on your hosting provider.
The .com is hosting your website using WordPress.com's ...
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Hosting my WordPress site out of a subdirectory
Wordpress have a Codex entry just for you: https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
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Hosting my WordPress site out of a subdirectory
in New cPanel it should create a folder for each add-on domains in root folder (not public_html folder) maybe your cPanel is older version. To overcome your problem first option is to update your ...
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trying to install wp but i have no clue on hosting and servers
Your question lacks info, but I think you only need a guidance on how to start.
If you want do develop locally, you should install XAMPP, WAMPP or any other program that 'emulates' a server in your ...
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AWS (or others) vs VPS
I think this will be a little too anecdotal. Someone answers "never had a second of downtime with AWS" someone answers "they had us down for days". Both might be true and you don't really get useful ...
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AWS (or others) vs VPS
I monitor a few websites with pingdom, one of the sites I monitor is not mine but I monitor out of curiosity is a amazon hosted site. In the past 6 months it has had 3 hours of downtime and 2 hour of ...
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lost all the links in WordPress after changing hosting
I need more details to tackle up what problem are you facing, but maybe these steps can help you:
Update your links in Wordpress database
Go to PhpMyAdmin
Find the database of your wordpress page
Go ...
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