Re: Suggestions for WordPress support sites -- WEB400

Well you helped me to be confused at a higher level Mauricio <grin>

I have reached out to some IBM i literate friends and they are taking a look for me.

So frustrating to know _what_ is probably wrong but not _where_ and not a log file in sight …

Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On May 22, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Pacheco, Mauricio <mauricio.pacheco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No problem. Just let me know if you need something else.
Hoping that I was kind of help for you.
Welcome to the WordPress plugin world... it is what it is. WP by itself it
is just a nice CMS.
Before going further with the plugins, I recommend you to research a lot.
For example, I was using one of the most downloaded and supported free
multilingual plugins qTranslate. No longer available for WP 4.x.x I cannot
upgrade one of my sites because I will lose this functionality.
I'm buyin the WPML plugin and migrating the French content from qTranslate.
Have a great weekend!

Best regards,

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On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I’m going to have to talk to some of my "PHP on IBM i” literate friends
because all of the permissions stuff relate to the user WP runs under and
ownership of the files etc. Somebody has been this way before - I just
need to find them. So frustrating because everything else works
perfectly. Luckily I don’t have to have the updates so I’m going to stop
wasting time on it. This one aspect has cost me more time that the rest of
the project put together.

As to passwords it looks as if I will simply change all passwords to a new
value and email the users asking them to change it when they log in.
Doesn’t seem to be an easy way to set a password as expired because WP
doesn’t provide the facility so it is plug-in dependent.

Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On May 22, 2015, at 10:12 AM, Pacheco, Mauricio <
mauricio.pacheco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Jon,

OK! We are good. Just to recap:

1st issue: Check the wp-config.php settings for FTP and the directory's
security for the plugins. References:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-install-asks-for-ftp-details

and

https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions

2nd issue: You can manually update the passwords on MySQL by changing the
field type to MD5 and copy+paste the passwords from one site to another.
References: https://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password

Best regards,

*Mauricio Pacheco*
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On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

Using MySQL.

As I have said before this is a 100% standard implementation of WP. The
web designer who put the thing together knew nothing about “AS/400”

(i.e.

IBM i) and didn’t need to.

The install is no different than on Linux or AIX or …

Jon Paris

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On May 21, 2015, at 9:03 PM, Pacheco, Mauricio <
mauricio.pacheco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Jon,

So far so good?

regarding your second issue: WP encrypts passwords using MD5.
Yes you can update the password manually by changing the field type.
However I don't know if under the AS 400 you are using MySQL. Most

likely

no, if you are using DB2/400 I may need to review the table structure

and

with a SQL statement it should be straight forward to do the update

either

using Visual Explain or DBU or STRSQL....
As I mentioned before, I don't have ZEND nor WP runing on the AS400

(until

next week maybe) I love this challenges... I love my job!

Best regards,

Mauricio Pacheco
On May 20, 2015 6:47 PM, "Jon Paris" <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Mauricio, thanks for offering to help.

I actually have two issues right now.

First is the one I posted on the Wordpress forum:

"WordPress has updated itself just fine but when I try to update

Plugins

and Themes I get the following failure message for all updates.

Downloading update from
https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/akismet.3.1.1.zip…;
Unpacking the update…
Installing the latest version…
Plugin update failed.
An error occurred while updating Akismet: The package could not be
installed. The package contains no files.

I can't find any log messages or anything else to tell me why this is
failing. Any suggestions? I'm a WordPress newbie and this is my first
problem of this nature."

Second issue is that I am setting up users by copying their details

from

an older system - but I can’t copy the passwords and need to force

them

to

set a new pw when they first sign in to the new system. Not sure how

to

accomplish that. Any search for expiring passwords just presents me

with a

myriad of people who want me to install their particular security plug

in.

Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On May 20, 2015, at 5:48 PM, Pacheco, Mauricio <
mauricio.pacheco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Jon,

I am an experienced WP developer. I run 15+ web sites and one

intranet.

What can I do for you?

Best regards,

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Systems Architect

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On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

What's that line from Ocean's Eleven; "I met a guy in the joint..."

The webmaster from http://alpineschools.org/ gave an excellent
presentation
on WordPress to

http://uiipa.org/2013/04/06/gslmug-meeting-for-april-10th/

I think he manages or supports something like 75-100 WordPress

sites.

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Jon Paris <

jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

Anyone here got any suggestions for good sources of assistance with
WordPress?

I’ve tried the main support forums but they literally get so many
questions an hour that the net result seems to be that only a tiny
percentage get any responses. And mine is not one of them! Within

12

hours of posting it had sunk to page 3!

Jon Paris

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