Today I ran into an interesting problem when I tried installing a plugin for wordpress. This morning I tried to install a new plugin that I had found in the article “9 SEO Plugins Every Wordpress Blog Should Have” on Problogger.net, Nofollow Case by Case. I was immediately prompted for “Connection Information” or FTP login. I was completely baffled because I had not installed any wordpress updates and the night before I had installed several plugins.
So I went to my best friend, Google and started searching for the answer and found “Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8“. There was a lot of good information on that web page but it seemed to complicated for my situation. I’m hosted with Godaddy as I have said before in my post “Wordpress E-Mail Won’t Work“, so I went into my account manager and looked at my file permissions (because you can’t use FTP file permissions on and IIS7 server), lo and behold the folder my blog blog is hosted at no longer had write permissions for applications. As soon as I enabled them everything started working like a charm.
Problem: When installing a plugin it asks for connection informaiton (FTP login).
Solution: Set write permissions for blog folder.
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I don’t usually reply to posts but I will in this case. I’ve been experiencing this very same problem with a new WordPress installation of mine. I’ve spent weeks calibrating and getting it ready when all of a sudden… I cannot delete any content. It’s a workaround that, although isn’t perfect, does the trick so thanks! I really hope this problem gets solved properly asap.
Your welcome! I’m glad I was able to help but I’m like you I hope they solve this problem soon. Thanks for the feedback!