Armando Duran

I had tried all the steps suggested by most of my searches as I was trying to find the solution.

Based on the comment by @temmes about the value rich_editing in the users_meta table I was able to solve it.

INSERT INTO [TABLEPREFIX]_usermeta (umeta_id, user_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES (NULL, ‘[YOUR_ID]’, ‘rich_editing’, ‘true’);

Here is the link to his comment

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by Armando Duran.

“If you modify a theme directly and it is updated, then your modifications may be lost. By using a child theme you will ensure that your modifications are preserved.”

It’s worth taking a read at the Child Themes documentation, where you will find other helpful resources listed at the bottom of that page, for example “How To Make A Child Theme“.

If you don’t want to go through the process of creating a child theme yourself, here are two plugins that can do it for you:

• Child Theme Wizard
• Child Themify

I hope this helps!

It’s a great idea!

The best example of this is WordPress.com itself, which runs thousands of websites/blogs in one multi-site install.

Edublogs.org is also a good example. You may even want to signup and see for yourself if that gets close to what you are trying to do.

Edublogs was build using a few plugins from WPMUDEV, which is a premium subscription but it may be worth exploring to see if that is a solution that you want. There is a good post called “How To Build Your Own Edublogs.org Site in 7 Easy Steps” that you may find interesting.

You may also consider instead of creating a multi-site solution, to create groups and forums using BuddyPress and BBPress. Both plugins are owned by Automattic and the implementation is pretty smooth. In fact these two plugins work together if need be.

I hope this helps!

I don’t think it is a problem to download, edit and then upload header.php.

But remember that it is best to make any modifications to the theme files by creating a child theme and then copying files to be modified to the child theme folder.

You may be already doing this, but I just wanted to mention that.

I’m having the same issue, but that was probably because the site I was needing this on, is not live yet and have not set the IP number on the DNS records for that domain.

I just didn’t think the file needed to be access directly by FlowPaper.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by Armando Duran.

I know how it feels.

I would suggest you try with Duplicator plugin. I’ve been able to migrate from local to a server with no problems most of the time.

You will need to have a database created on your server, but the plugin guides you through the process.

It is in deed an interesting title but I think it is needed, specially these days when it seems that the easiest way to go about Gutenberg is to amplify the cons.

When I became a fan of WordPress in 2008, I not only liked the mission to democratize publishing but also the fact that it is open source.

In my own observations as to how other people would interact with WordPress for content creation, it was sort of a struggle to realize that not all people understand HTML (not that they have to) and this also meant that I had to explain certain things that are just not possible without going into the code.

I have been able to experience the tremendous potential that WordPress has over the years. I personally like the concept and what the project will bring to the table in terms of user experience and content creation.

I know this means that it will implicate some other consequences in relation to other plugins, theme development and even educating users. But I still think it is the way to go.

Therefore I support Gutenberg!

The reason for needing FTP in your case is because you can’t even access admin area.

If you don’t know what plugins you updated, move all plugins to a folder and start putting them back in and refreshing the site until you find the culprit plugin.

You could do this with a premium plugin by WPMUDEV called Membership 2 Pro.

With this, you’ll be able to easily create member levels and restricted pages where you can embed your replays.

And even process payment for the memberships.

There may be other solutions, but I’ve used this myself before for member area sites:

https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/membership/

If you remember what plugins you updated and if you have FTP access to your WordPress installation:

Navigate to the “plugins” folder and move the plugins you installed to another folder outside of “plugins” folder. This will disable those plugins and at least you will have access to your site.

I normally create a temporal folder at the same level of plugins called something like “plugins-not-used”. This way I am able to move the plugins faster as opposed to downloading them and uploading them. Once a plugin is in another location, it gets disabled.

Then start putting them back in until you find the one that is breaking your site.

Once you find the one that is breaking the site, you may have to figure out why, etc.

I hope this helps!

I would recommend to use the plugin User Role Editor.

Then disable the capability “publish_posts” for the role Contributor.

Optionally, with this plugin you will be able to create a custom role with a name and permissions that better fits your needs.

You may have more than one .htaccess file.

Make sure the file is on the root folder and not on /web

Method I as explained in “Giving WordPress Its Own Directory” may be what you are looking for.

Here are the steps:

1. After Installing the wordpress in root folder, move EVERYTHING from root folder into subdirectory.
2. Create a .htaccess file in root folder, and put this content inside (just change example.com and my_subdir):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/my_subdir/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /my_subdir/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ my_subdir/index.php [L] 
</IfModule>

In addition to what everybody else is recommending, take a look at this article:

WordPress Security Fundamentals: How to Not Get Hacked

Assuming you created another site on the multisite network that has the ‘Members Area’, all you have to do is enable a plugin that would prevent not logged in users from seeing Members Area.

Authenticator plugin allows you to do that.

Then, as long as you add the users to the ‘Members Area’ site, they should be able to navigate to the ‘Public Area’, which could be your main website and to the ‘Members Area’ when logged in.

And you are probably doing this with a member plugin but in case not, I recently posted a list membership plugins on another forum thread here.

I hope this helps!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Armando Duran.