Update WordPress Automatically Without FTP

I discovered something magical today, how to update WordPress from within the Admin if you don’t have FTP enabled.

This means you can 1-click and update without having FTP enabled! The same applies to the plugins too.

All you have to do are a few steps.

1. Add this to your config.php file, save and upload:

   define('FS_METHOD','direct'); 
   
   
   

2. Change the ownership of the files for the site as they need to be owned by www-data with the following chown command:

   chown www-data:www-data -R * 
   
   
   

3. Change the directory permissions to 755:

   find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
   
   
   

4. Change the file permissions to 644:

   find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
   
   

This also applies to plugins, one click and you are done!