WordPress: PHP Dependencies

Tabled below is a list of PHP dependencies for WordPress and some of its more popular plugins. Interestingly, the plugin PHP dependencies are not well documented anywhere. WordPress & Plugins PHP Dependencies References WordPress 5.5.1 and higher php, curl, dom, exif, fileinfo, json, mbstring, mysqli, pecl-libsodium, openssl, pecl-imagick, xml, zip, filter, gd, iconv, pecl-mcrypt, simplexml, …
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WordPress Script: Opportunities for Improvement

There are a number of opportunities to continue to improve the script. Much of is outside my current sphere of knowledge. These are listed below. If you’re able to assist with any of this, or can help refine the script in other ways, please consider submitting a pull request at https://github.com/basilhendroff/freenas-iocage-wordpress. 1. Reduce the number of …
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WordPress: To Multisite or not?

This image is from the WordPress article Installing Multiple WordPress Instances: I started with a Multisite configuration, but after a couple of days had increasing doubts about using it. I have since moved to Multiple Databases. Scripting the installation of WordPress in a FreeNAS jail made it easy to work with this configuration, but first, …
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WordPress Script: Post-Installation Tasks

Manual Post-Installation Tasks The following tasks are done within the WordPress jail: Securing MariaDB Authentication Unique Keys and Salts Configure WordPress for Reverse Proxy Setup the WordPress Filesystem Configure Redis Configure sSMTP Test sSMTP Configure phpMyAdmin There is the opportunity to incorporate some of the above within the WordPress script. For more information, refer to …
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WordPress Plugin: File Manager – Vulnerability

September 2020 was a bad month for WordPress websites running File Manager. You can read all about it in the article Hackers are exploiting a critical flaw affecting >350,000 WordPress sites. So, a couple of nights ago I was posting in the support forum for the WordPress Plugin: Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan …
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