Installing Theme from uploaded file. Not uploaded theme?

You need to set the permissions locally in a UNIX environment: sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/wordpress Also perhaps: chown -R nobody:nobody /path/to/wordpress Also try setting the FTP creds in the wp-config.php file: define( ‘FTP_USER’, ‘username’ ); define( ‘FTP_PASS’, ‘password’ ); define( ‘FTP_HOST’, ‘ftp.example.org:21’ ); Use “admin” or “root” for user and leave the password blank.

Local installation is broken

Have you double checked your wp-config.php file to make sure it’s pointing to the correct database? Also if your site was previously locally hosted and now it’s live also make sure that the siteurl and home URL’s are correct in the database for the live site under the ‘wp_options’ table. Edit: If you can access … Read more