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Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by mike

mike — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:05:27 +0000

I’ve just installed Wordpress (2.9.2) on my localhost and couldn’t install any new themes. Added this to my config and now it works fine. Thanks!

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by jack

jack — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:04:54 +0000

awesome. adding define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’); fixed my upgrade problem. thanks!

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by rene

rene — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:50:36 +0000

Worked for me as well! Needed to change the access right on the includes directory but after that it worked like a charme. Thx

Comment on Linux nostalgia by Ralph W Siegler

Ralph W Siegler — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:04:10 +0000

In 1998, Keith and some other consultants at a midwestern healthcare insurance software company would be overheard talking about this “Linux” thing. At the time I, old hand at SunOS and HPUX and IRIX, was increasingly frustrated by shortcomings of “Windows”. After several years of forced-by-corporate-mandate use at two jobs it found to be not an operating system at all, but merely a kludgey program-loader and some half-useful utilities. Somewhere along the way I gleaned from conversations of Keith and his consultant cohorts that this “Linux” thing actually transformed a PC into a Unix workstation, and the light bulb went on in my head that “I really need some of that.” So one day I blew away the company’s required windows and laid down the Redhat 5.1 I”ve been using GNU/Linux ever since.

Comment on Today IS pretty cool… by Ralph W Siegler

Ralph W Siegler — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:36:28 +0000

Can’t resist the geek troll bait.

A three vacuum tube NAND gate has more computing power than a 1972 Cray, since that’s the year CRI was founded, they didn’t have the CRAY-1 until 1976.

Energy density of lithium ion battery is around 0.8 MJ per liter, explosives used in modern grenades yield 6 to 20 times as much.

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by Ldigital

Ldigital — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:04:42 +0000

Thank you so much!
I’ve had many problems with Wordpress FTP Access on Xtreemhost, but this tweak fixes it!
Thanks! =)

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by Everything Is Crap » Why is WordPress asking me to log in to install a new theme?

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:55:41 +0000

[...] Thanks to Keith for figuring out why WordPress was asking me to log in just to install a new theme. [...]

Comment on Notes from the scarlet fields of Can’-Ka No Rey by Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:46:24 +0000

My best hope is that this somehow gets posted. I don’t know you, sir. Or Minna, whoever they may be. But I love you both. I’ve had long days and pleasant nights since I discovered Mid World, but I have been alone in my wonder. I am glad to know you, and hope that,though we probably have NO other connections, you will share khef with me. Someday, when I stand at the foot of the Tower, after crossing that terrible field of Roses, I’ll sing your names. Say thankya. Say thankya big big.

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by Jonathon Hill » What to do when WordPress 2.8+ asks for connection info to upgrade a plugin

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:33:01 +0000

[...] googling revealed that I needed to add this constant in my wp-config.php [...]

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by Laran Evans

Laran Evans — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:41:25 +0000

Neat trick. I won’t leave this change in place because it’s not durable through upgrades. But it did help me to diagnose and resolve the underlying problem. Thanks.

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by Mandeep Singh

Mandeep Singh — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:15:47 +0000

Thanks Man i problem is gone after 6 hours of headache

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by Boris

Boris — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:12:53 +0000

Many many many thanks for this, I’v been searching for like 2 hours

Comment on Fix/Tricks for plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.5 by Randy’s Blog » WordPress hell again

Randy’s Blog » WordPress hell again — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:28:36 +0000

[...] Fix was here. [...]

Comment on Fix/Tricks for plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.5 by Kemple.us » Post Topic » Getting Wordpress Autoupgrade to Work

Kemple.us » Post Topic » Getting Wordpress Autoupgrade to Work — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:40:41 +0000

[...] been doing it the old fashioned way of either sftp or through terminal. The closest I got was this fix that I found which at least made it so I could upgrade/install plugins with one [...]

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by vince jelenic

vince jelenic — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:16:28 +0000

hi, thanks a million.
head aching from using ftp past two weeks, today decided either I get auto upgrades working, or chuck WP. given new 2.9 in stream, and over 9 plugins begging for upgrade — was about to give up till I came across this.
Did the change, immediately “deleted” a plugin without resorting to ftp — I’ll cross fingers for it working across the board, but THAT is one huge step from before.
Who’da thunk, one liner. And I’ve been tackling file permissions, and considering workarounds for a bit now.
Gee, thanks, really muchly.
thanks.

Comment on iTunes keeps syncing the same 44 songs OVER and OVER: SOLVED! by Mike Reeser

Mike Reeser — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:53:47 +0000

I’ve had this problem for quite a while now and it does it on my iPhone and my iPod.

Using your post, I thought about the ID3 tag issue and came up with another method that fixes the problem because it, I presume, resets the tags on all the songs.

I have iTunes 9 and OSX 10.6 and this worked for me:

Select all the songs in your library,
select get-info,
select the options tab,
select “remember the play position” and say *yes* to it,
then apply the changes.

Wait while iTunes changes every song in your library to this new option.

Then, go through the same process to turn *Off* the same “remember the play position” option and wait while iTunes changes all songs back again.

For me, this fixed the problem.

Cheers!
-MikeR

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by WordPress FTP Connection Information | seanhayes.biz

WordPress FTP Connection Information | seanhayes.biz — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:19:33 +0000

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Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by Rob Scott

Rob Scott — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:43:02 +0000

Me again! Just moved one of our bigger blogs to a new bigger dedicated server, encountering a new OS, and a new control panel (Plesk 9.2.2) – I love these learning curves. Got everything set up, then auto updates didn’t work. Came back to this bookmark, still nothing. Turned out to be the following:

Turn PHP Safe Mode Off

Simple as that. Hope this helps someone having the major fit I narrowly avoided this morning!

Once again thanks for your simple guide – really helps to have a step-by-step to go back to when your brain is fried after a day of tinkering

Comment on Fix/Tricks for plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.5 by jez

jez — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:54:33 +0000

works like a charm, many thanks.

I had to leave out the temp dir, but it works now

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by jules

jules — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:06:11 +0000

Just adding the above code to my wp-config.php worked for me (without wp_temp_dir settings). Before, I had been prompted by an ftp error message (re. connection information) when installing new themes in WP 2.8.4. No matter what I tried, it just didn’t work. I tried downloading plugins too and everything seems to run smoothly now. Thanks a lot!

Comment on Fix/Tricks for plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.5 by Jordan McClements

Jordan McClements — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:22:15 +0000

“Without WP_TEMP_DIR specified in your config, the upgrade will use wp-content as a temp directory.”…

Thanks – that was the info I was looking for – changing folder permissions to “777″ temporarily did the trick…

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by donnacha | WordSkill

donnacha | WordSkill — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:32:22 +0000

Sorry, I should have mentioned, I was attempting to upgrade from 2.7.1 to 2.8.4.

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by donnacha | WordSkill

donnacha | WordSkill — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:30:25 +0000

I had the opportunity to try a core upgrade too but got this error:

Warning: copy(/home/lonesc/public_html/wp-admin/includes/update-core.php) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/lonesc/public_html/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php on line 122

… so, I guessing that there is some other folder that I need to 777 in order to get core upgrades working.

Is anyone familiar with what folders WP copies from and writes to during a core upgrade?

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by donnacha | WordSkill

donnacha | WordSkill — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:57:25 +0000

I did try a bunch of other things, including 775 on those directories, but nothing else got it all the way.

BTW, thank you very much for writing this up, it is insanely useful, I only wish WordPress worked like this out of the box.

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by donnacha | WordSkill

donnacha | WordSkill — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:54:05 +0000

Having followed the instructions on the 2.8.4 installation on CentOS Linux, I found that the only way I could both get past the final stages of having directories created and the old plugin removed was to:

chmod -R 777 wp-content/tmp
chmod -R 777 wp-content/plugins
chmod -R 777 wp-content/upgrade

… is there a more secure way to achieve this?

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by Keith Garner

Keith Garner — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:26:47 +0000

Huh, works for the upgrade but not the plugins? Sounds like a permissions issue still somewhere. I’ve never tried it for the upgrade, as I just use svn for that.

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by Johan

Johan — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:06:58 +0000

Hello!
Thanks a lot for this post! It works perfectly on the WP upgrade. But plugin updates still give me the “connection info” fields.

Any ideas?
best regards Johan

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by Ernesto

Ernesto — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:20:51 +0000

Great ! I’ve been seeking so long to resolve this pb, and this works !!
Thanx a lot, Keith.

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by Brett

Brett — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:49:23 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I had to bump the memory allocation of PHP in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini (Ubuntu) to get it to work.

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by Keith Garner

Keith Garner — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:41:35 +0000

Heather, it sounds like permissions on your plugins or temp directory. Based on it being so late in the process, I’d look at plugins first.

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by Heather D

Heather D — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:32:14 +0000

I’m having this same problem… the config.php fix “worked” in that it no longer gave me the “connection information” blank fields to fill in… it says it downloaded the package, unpacked the package… then could not create the directory.

Any ideas?

Comment on iTunes keeps syncing the same 44 songs OVER and OVER: SOLVED! by Brian Pepin

Brian Pepin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:34:05 +0000

I’ve had this problem with 500 songs for months. I’ve run MP3 scanners on all my files and they all report as good. Upgrading the tags fixed it. Thank you!

Comment on Fix/Tricks for plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.5 by Michael post

Michael post — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:14:47 +0000

I had the same problem and the following seemed to fix it. “Note that your files all need to be owned by the user under which your Apache server executes, or you will receive a dialog box asking for “connection information,” and you will find that no matter what you enter, it won’t work. ”

from http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress

Comment on Twitter annoyances by Keith Garner

Keith Garner — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:26:23 +0000

Phil, is that an annoyance of Twitter or a solution for that annoyance?

Comment on Twitter annoyances by Phil Simon

Phil Simon — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:06:11 +0000

One word: porn.

Comment on Twitter annoyances by Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:44:40 +0000

I’m really tired of all of these SEO and “social marketing” people following me, and getting followed whenever I mention a specific keyword.

Comment on Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8 by Rob Scott

Rob Scott — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:43:51 +0000

Thanks Keith,

You wouldn’t believe my head scratching – then I remembered I’d bookmarked your original method for future reference and, sure enough, problem solved with this new (and ridiculously simple) fix.

Thanks so much

Rob Scott

Comment on Fix/Tricks for plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.5 by Marty Thornley

Marty Thornley — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:19:55 +0000

Thanks for the help. Just ran into this for the first time and your fix worked… with one extra step.

It got me past the connection information but was having trouble creating folders, so I needed to create the folder ‘wp-content/upgrade’ as well.

The part that bothers me is that none of it would work without all three folders ‘plugins’, ‘tmp’, and ‘upgrade’ all being 777. Is that a problem?

Comment on Twitter annoyances by Magnus

Magnus — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:34:22 +0000

I used to reason like Rob, then I realized E=mc2 is only 5 characters.

Comment on Fix/Tricks for plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.5 by Ivan | SEO Consultant

Ivan | SEO Consultant — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:34:30 +0000

The change to getmyuid() to posix_getuid() does the trick for me on 2.7.1.

But when the plugin is downloaded, I click Activate – and get a blank page. – Going Back to the list of plugins, the new plugin IS actaully activated…

The page just does not display automatically like it did – with teh confirmation of the plugin activation.

Anyone else seeing this?