2 Customizing WordPress plugins and themes
3 in a default installation from PLD package.
5 Pawel Wilk <siefca@gnu.org>
7 Some WordPress plugins need customization by editing PHP
8 files via web interface. Maybe there are also some CSS
9 styles and/or theme files you would like to edit that way.
10 However, in default PLD installation (from RPM package)
11 all these files (plugins and themes and their respective
12 directories) are writable only by their owner, which is root
13 user. Additionaly the group which owns the files is a group,
14 which web server uses by default (http), but the files and
15 directories are only readable (searchable) by this group.
17 If you would like to customize your WordPress site via the
18 Web you should first let the owning group to write the
19 files. You can set it up by invoking: /usr/bin/wp-setup or
20 ./wp-setup.sh in your WordPress directory.
22 When you finish you may want to revoke the ability to change
23 by calling: /usr/bin/wp-secure or ./wp-secure.sh in the
24 WordPress default installation directory.
26 This simple routine is highly recommended when you have
27 multiple dynamic sites running under the same parmissions
28 and avoids bad users to overwrite your content files via
29 nasty server-side scripts.