Letting WordPress users install themes, plugins without FTP credentials

Posted on August 24, 2012 by vicki

Quick answer: Put this in the user’s wp-config.php file:
define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’);

If you are having trouble updating the core wordpress, remember that no matter what the permissions are, wordpress needs it to be owned by apache:apache.

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