Wordpress Blog Site (Tool)
Log in to: http://www.mcnaircenter.org/blog/wp-admin/
Install FTP server
Log in and sudo su yourself, then:
apt-get install vsftpd
Man page for the vsftpd.conf file
http://vsftpd.beasts.org/vsftpd_conf.html
Securing the FTP:
https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/ftp-server.html
Configuration
Edit /etc/vsftpd.conf (note next restart will reflect changes in /etc/init)
#add at tend of file: listen_port=26
Generate keys for our website with the following command:
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout /etc/vsftpd.pem -out /etc/vsftpd.pem
Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:US State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:Texas Locality Name (eg, city) []:Houston Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:McNair Center at Rice University's Baker Institute Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []: Common Name (e.g. server FQDN or YOUR name) []:McNair Center Email Address []:admin@mcnaircenter.org
Edit /etc/vsftpd.conf again
#change the lines as follows: rsa_cert_file=/etc/vsftpd.pem rsa_private_key_file=/etc/vsftpd.pem write_enable=YES chroot_local_user=YES chroot_list_enable=YES chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list ssl_enable=YES
Edit /etc/vsftpd.chroot_list to contain a list of usernames (e.g., ravali)
Restart the server
service vsftpd restart
The FTP server should be accessible. Beware local packet shaping. Connect through mcnaircenter.org:26. Otherise have a check that the process is running and listening:
ps -aux netstat -lnt
Assuming all is good with the FTP server, we now need to update Wordpress.
Update Wordpress
First make a copy of the wordpress folder and dbase
cp -R /var/lib/wordpress/ /var/lib/wordpress_bak mysqldump -u mcnair_wp -p wordpress > backup_12Aug2016.sql (enter password for dbase found in wp-config.php)
Change the permissions on every in the wordpress folder and make www-data its owner:
chown -R www-data /var/lib/wordpress chmod -R 755 /var/lib/wordpress
Browse to 128.42.44.180/blog/wp-admin Click update now. Enter:
Hostname 128.42.44.180:26 FTP Username ravali (or some other account) FTP Password Connection Type FTPS (SSL)
Leave the Akismet plugin Go to appearance, themes -> add new
Choose Accesspress Lite 2.46.7 Activate
Install all of the recommended pluggins that come with the theme
Check the media library works by uploading a file (e.g., GreenRoundLogo.png)
Create a child theme
cd /var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/themes
mkdir accesspress-lite-child
vi accesspress-lite-child/style.css
Add in the template from the parent folder's style.css (just the top of the file)
Update the theme name and text domain to accesspress-lite-child.
vi accesspress-lite-child/functions.php
Add in the section that never changes
<?php
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
$parent_style = 'parent-style'; // This is 'twentyfifteen-style' for the Twenty Fifteen theme.
wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style',
get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
array( $parent_style ),
wp_get_theme()->get('Version')
);
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
?>
Check the permissions on the new files:
chown -R www-data /var/lib/wordpress chmod -R 755 /var/lib/wordpress
Active the child theme! Check out what it looks like: www.mcnaircenter.org/blog
Customize our theme
Middle Section
The middle area of the blog's home page as three sections -
The Twitter Feed
This widget will display the top 5 tweets of the McNair Center's twitter account.
- In the Appearance -> Widgets section, the theme has the middle section sidebar.
- Add the AccessPress-lite Twitter feed widget to the middle section sidebar
- Log into dev.twitter.com with the McNair Center's creds.
- Paste the security keys, consumer keys, etc identifying the McNair Center API into the form of the widget.
- Set/reset the number of blog posts that are required
Categories
This is a built in widget from wordpress that is being used in this section.
Custom Widgets
Add a custom (text/html) widget from the widgets to put in the 'Contact Us' and social media icons.
Requirements
Design
Styling
Header
Sidebar
Image Uploads
Content
Blog Posts
Titles
Author Info
Usability Features
RSS
Subscription Rules
User Accounts
Useful resources if there are errors
Wordpress:
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended#Step_9:_Run_the_WordPress_upgrade_program
- https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-45-error-after-update
- https://help.webcontrolcenter.com/kb/a992/vsftpd-ftp-server.aspx
FTP Issues:
