Automatic updates of plugins and wordpress itself does not work with lighttpd out of the box. No matter how much I searched for an answer to why this was happening, I couldn’t seem to find anyone that addressed the problem and came up with a solution. I wanted to fix …

‘ve seen many ways to solve wordpress url rewriting for lighttpd. Some people say all you need a server.error-handler-404 = “/index.php” and you’re done, but that didn’t work for me. If you’re trying to run several sites using multiple domain names with multiple installation directories, here’s how I got it to work. But take this with a grain of salt because your mileage may vary. /cliches
First make sure you include the broken-scriptfilename line in your fastcgi line. That was key to getting skins working for me.

Find the wp-admin directory of your site and put a .htaccess file in there.  Create it as root and just put 3 lines in it and you’re done.
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 72.14.205.100
Change 72.14.205.100 to your ip address. If you’re behind a router of some time, go to a website …

Get rid of this line in all your WordPress php files
<meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress <?php bloginfo(’version’); ?>” /><!– leave this for stats please –>
When wordpress comes out with a new version, part of the update is usually fixing an exploitable bug.  The bug may allow a hacker to access your wp-admin …

I just got Wordpress installed and completely forgot to change the random password it started me off with to something I might have a chance of remembering.  So to change it, I opened a terminal and changed the password field for the account I just created in mysql.  Here’s how:
First …