Fix WordPress My Sites Network Admin Broken Navigation Links

Steps taken with WordPress version 3.5.1: On a development server, you installed WordPress running from a subfolder. On the dev server, you then set up a WordPress Network and added a couple of subdomain sites. You then installed WordPress on a production server, running from the same named subfolder as on dev. You then backup… Continue reading Fix WordPress My Sites Network Admin Broken Navigation Links

Fix WordPress Plugin wp-db-backup Missing Context Help

Problem: context help in dashboard -> tools -> backup, is empty or missing Situation: After upgrading WordPress to version >= 3.3 WordPress plugin wp-db-backup version 2.2.3 (current as of Mar, 2013) Symptoms: Context help tab on the backup page is missing or empty With WP_DEBUG enabled you see “Notice: add_contextual_help is deprecated since version 3.3!… Continue reading Fix WordPress Plugin wp-db-backup Missing Context Help

Protecting Files/Folders, Deny Web Server, Allow PHP

We would like to provide an extra level of security for files and folders that we can’t move outside the web server document root. A common scenario with shared web hosting is that IIS or Apache and PHP run under the same user account. We can give this additional security by leveraging the difference effect… Continue reading Protecting Files/Folders, Deny Web Server, Allow PHP