Common wordpress problems

Things I learned while developing pagume.com with wordpress

Problem 1:

if you can’t install thems locally because of the following error

“Connection Information” and asks to type FTP credentials, do the following.

Solution 1:

We can simply add the following code to our wp-config.php to let WordPress use a different filesystem method than FTP.

define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’);

Setting the ‘FS_METHOD’ to ‘direct’ will also allow you to update WordPress Core and install themes from the theme repository locally.

Problem 2:

How to get child theme path

Solution 2:

bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); // will return the path