Depending on your version of OS X, you will need to configure and run FTP and open a port in the firewall. It’s best if you google your OS X version – 10.6, 10.7, etc. – specifically and find the docs necessary to set up FTP and Sharing. You also need to realize the security … Read more
Congratulation Jon, welcome to the WordPress world! To fix the issue, just add the following line of code in your installed WordPress’s wp-config.php file. It’s a PHP constant declaration which tells the WordPress to avoid the FTP. That’s it. define( ‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’ ); For more info: https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#WordPress_Upgrade_Constants
It doesn’t. WP Filesystem API will ask for FTP credentials, but it will do so for each operation. They aren’t stored persistently. They can be stored persistently by hardcoding into wp-config.php, but WP won’t do that itself, it’s a user action. Note that WP only asks for FTP credentials if it cannot modify files without … Read more
When you do something that requires WordPress write to the filesystem, it does a check to see if it has permissions to do so by writing a temp file. If this check fails it will ask for FTP details in order to write the files to your server. EDIT look in wp-admin/includes/file.php, line 843, for … Read more
WordPress does support making connections using SSH (aka SFTP) via the built in updater system. It got this support in version 2.7, approximately 6 years ago. Reference: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7690 If you’re not seeing it in the normal “credentials” screen, then this is because your PHP installation lacks the support necessary for it to be able to … Read more
Your site has likely been hacked. My site had the Darkleech infection, which injected some malicious code into wp-includes/nav-menu.php, causing .htaccess to reset to 444 on any page load. I’d recommend you install the Sucuri plugin and let it restore any files that have been corrupted. Assuming your site was hacked, use their Post-Hack tab … Read more
You can save this information on your wp-config.php file: define(‘FTP_HOST’, ‘ftp_host’); define(‘FTP_USER’, ‘ftp_username’); define(‘FTP_PASS’, ‘ftp_password’); More info (WordPress Codex)
OPTION 1: If a WordPress WXR file, an XML file exported from WordPress, is too large to import, there are several things you might try to overcome that limit. Increase the amount of memory a PHP script may consume. Note: If using a shared hosting service, you may need to ask your host to increase … Read more
Avoid direct upload WordPress doesn’t scan upload directory for new files, instead use WordPress media uploader to add files WordPress automatically creates folder and store them accordingly. But you can use this plugin to import those uploaded files into WordPress, it should help you https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-from-server/
I usually do this when that happens (only locally, not for production) : chown -R nobody:nobody /path/to/wordpress