I get a lot of traffic on the site due to my post on getting direct (non-FTP) updates to work on WordPress 2.5. This method worked up until 2.7.x. With 2.8 out this week, I found during my svn switch a conflict was created due to a code change in file.php. Looking at the changes, it looks like the wordpress developers created an easy way for one to short-circuit the update to use the method you want via a setting in wp-config.php.
So, in brief, the permissions and WP_TEMP_DIR settings from the older article still stand. However, you no longer need to edit wp-admin/includes/file.php. Now you just need to edit your wp-config.php and add the following towards the bottom:
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct'); |
Hi Keith,
Can confirm this still works – those of you who run into permissions issues, I wrote a short item on this here, which will work for updating themes, wp version & plugins:
http://silicondales.com/blog/how-to-get-auto-update-working-on-wordpress-update-wp-version-plugins-without-ftp/
If you’re having problems with this, check out your file permissions/ownership (its almost always that!).
I wrote the above for people who keep emailing me asking how, so hope it helps a few people on this page I bookmarked years ago for my own purposes!