The problem with WordPress not being able to install plugins or update itself is because WordPress uses the Apache ‘user’ for all its processes. In the case of Ubuntu / Linux the Apache user and group is www-data:www-data. By doing sudo chown www-data:www-data /wordpress your changing the ownership of all files. A problem can occur … Read more
You should demand access to ftp or the command line, working without is is crippling and to be blunt, silly.
I don´t have the reputation for a comment, so an answer must do it. WordPress uses (s?)FTP to install updates and plugins. Your SSH credentials are something different and most possibly not those ones of an FTP account. If you want to use the built-in FTP function of WordPress your hostname is normally “localhost” because … Read more
FTP login is more than enough to install wordpress. You just need to upload your wordpress’s root folder content (not root folder itself) via FTP and then open your site’s admin section via browser something like this http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/. Then you will see wordpress installation step. Follow that steps and your wordpress installation is done. NOTE … Read more
Upload files only on FTP
Do you mean “page content” as is content of your posts or markup of the web page? Content content WordPress content is stored in MySQL database. To completely copy a site to your local computer you would need not only copy of files files, but: Web server with PHP support to run it MySQL server … Read more
To fix this issue: Set WordPress directory and file permissions to allow your webserver’s user account execute+read+write access. (Typically this means setting permissions 0775 for directories and 0664 for files.) However, I don’t quite understand about ownership. I’d recommend a review of Understanding Linux File Permissions at Linux.com – it never hurts to know what’s … Read more
The wp_cache_get() function is part of wp-includes/cache.php file. Check that cache.php exists Please make sure that you have a cache.php file inside your wp-includes/ folder. File: wp-includes/cache.php Next step? If the file does not exist, your installation of WordPress may be corrupt. You’ll need to upload the missing files even manually by first downloading the … Read more
What if you try http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ssh-sftp-updater-support/ ? If that doesn’t work you can do a quick code change to get the logs with which the developer of that plugin can use do more diagnostics.
define( ‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’ ); solved it.