[wp-hackers] Installing themes, plugins without FTP

[Otto]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Scot Hacker <shacker at birdhouse.org> wrote:
>> From: Barry Carlyon <barry at barrycarlyon.co.uk>
>>
>> Its because the Filesystem class, checks to see if it can write to WordPress root, not the folder its about to write stuff too :-(
>
> Thanks for responses everyone. Though the suggestion above did not work, this does: In wp-config, add:
>
> define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');

Be very, very careful with forcing the method. Test it with a complete
WP upgrade as well. Having the wrong method could just have it go
right ahead and break your site for no obvious reason.

-Otto