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Articles posted by Thomas Griffin

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Introduction to the WP Filesystem

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Thomas Griffin in Advanced, Member Restricted, Subscriber Only, Tutorials, Writing Plugins 1 Comment

I’ve spent a lot of time lately dealing with a little known, under-documented but extremely useful class in WordPress called WP_Filesystem. WP_Filesystem is used throughout WordPress to handle core/plugin/themes updates and various tasks that require writing files to your webserver. The WP_Filesystem class is a base class that has many extensions depending on what ‘method’ [...]

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