My hosting is contracted with Hostinger. WordPress recommends that I remove inactive plugins to avoid attacks. One of these plugins is "Hostinger".
Before deleting it I would like to know what this plugin does, to avoid a problem to my Website.
Does anyone know what this plugin does and if I can remove it?
Thanks
I believe the Hostinger plugin is used to create an interface between your Wordpress installation and the hosting Control Panel.
It allows you to see Hostinger features, install some recommended plugins and walk you through an onboarding flow.
You can safely uninstall this plugin if you have your WP setup complete.
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I have a WordPress Multisite running on a relatively new Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lightsail instance, based on a Bitnami image (provided through AWS Lightsail) running a LAMP stack, based on Debian.
Until recently, plugins installed through the WordPress multisite Administrator Dashboard installed and ran good. Worked great before, no problems. Now, for some reason, attempting to install any WordPress plugin surfaces a dialog requiring FTP credentials be provided. There's a screenshot of the WordPress multisite dialog asking for FTP credentials at the end of this message.
I'm thinking this - new - demand to provide FTP credentials when adding a WordPress plugin is happening due to permissions. Naturally, I'd rather not need to install WordPress plugins using FTP.
So, I have two questions:
What settings were accidentally - somehow - changed to cause WordPress to now produce this new requirement asking for FTP credentials when installing any WordPress plugin?
How to I fix WordPress so that plugins can be installed without FTP?
I did see many solutions for fixing permissions on the Internet, except since I'm new to AWS, Linux (Debian) & WordPress I'd like to use this opportunity to learn how this situation happened, while learning how to fix the hiccup. Other than using a few new plugins, which installed & ran fine without FTP, I have not made any edits to any internal WordPress files.
The only chance to change permissions might - maybe - have happened when setting-up users within my AWS account, including setting-up of a Yubico key with key-pairs --> I don't think that security change would influence the LAMP stack running the WordPress multisite, but I wanted to offer information that might - maybe - related to security changes influencing why, now, adding WordPress plugins requests FTP credentials.
Thanks in advance, everybody. Thank you. :)
WordPress multisite dialog asking for FTP credentials
I tried to add many, many WordPress plugins to confirm that every WordPress plugin now asks for FTP credentials for any new plugin.
I have looked at many Internet posts explaining how to change WordPress & Linux permissions, along with posts explaining how to change WordPress configuration files to not ask for FTP when installing new plugins. I have not acted on these many suggestions since I'm cautious & careful --> I'm ready to study months & months becoming a Linux, WordPress, and supporting technologies expert, but at this stage since I'm new to all-of-the-above, I'm reluctant to make any changes until I fully understand the technologies (after making this post, I will make copies of WordPress configuration-files to test changes that can be undone, but I wanted to see whether StackOverflow might help me learn what happened in the first place, while learning how to correctly fix these issues.
I pay for AWS Premium Support --> I've sent a message to AWS Premium Support, but so far have not heard back from AWS.
I installed the plugin but I am unable to edit the settings of the plugin, I activate it. But the plugin is not showing on the menu bar and if I try to access the setting from the installed plugins page, the setting is still not showing. What to do?
Which plugin is it? first you should check if the plugin is compatible with the version of WordPress and the theme you are using.
in any case the reasons can be numerous.
Sometimes it happens that it is a server setting problem, especially the memory limit. Other times it can be a user permissions issue.
I activated my wp-rocket using cpanel then i tried my site that this showing image.
Go to cpanel/ ftp, plugins folder, delete the plugin, reload the website.
If you want to speed up your website, develop a theme from scratch, plugins make website vulnerable and bulky. Use optimized images, less in disk space and high in quality.
There are several reasons for that:
Disable all plugins and check the response somehow cache plugin conflict with one of theme plugin
Set permalink structure
Clear cache of your site through the plugin
just for cross-checking test another cache plugin
Once you check all the above points and found no luck so it must be your theme development issue than check your hooks which you have used in your theme development.
I apologize in advanced if this is too simple of a question; but,
I know you can install wordpress locally, and that hosting servers may have wordpress available. Do you need a wordpress account at wordpress.com to launch a wordpress website on a host other than wordpress.com?
If so, is it possible to install plugins like woocommerce as well?
You dont need a wordpress.com account and yes, you can install the addons.
I am helping a friend build a simple Wordpress website, their current website is with a hosting and domain service called https://www.icuk.net/.
The website is very poorly built on this platform. I told them I'd make a website for free on WordPress as I have some experience with drag and drop WordPress website builders.
My question is, if I use the platform's one-click WordPress installation, does it automatically delete the website that was previously using the domain and hosting? If so, could anyone explain in layman's terms how I would go about backing it up, as it's always better to be safe than sorry.
I would be hesitant to do this, personally. I believe you can use the one click service to uninstall, at which point you can install WP again. A better option, however, if WP is already installed, would be to just change the theme, deactivate and delete any unwanted plugins, and then delete (or change to draft if you may want any of the content for your new development) any unwanted posts or pages. A current version of WP is a current version of WP, thus there is no reason to reinstall. Once you change the theme, remove the posts and pages, and remove the plugins, you are essentially back to a new install. Maybe do that instead?