Standard permissions for wordpress; Plugin installation asks for FTP credentials

Standard permissions for most WordPress installations is 755 for directories and 644 for files.

For media uploads, auto plugin installation and updates the directories need to be owned by the same user PHP is running under. Usually this is nobody:nobody or www-data:www-data.

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