I was all set to write a witty blog entry about our latest adventures with washing machines when I discovered that something somewhere has changed with my WordPress configuration. I can no longer write images to the blog. This makes me sad.
I’m thinking something has changed on the hosted server so I have opened a trouble ticket. Wish me luck.
Sounds like one of 2 things happened:
1) Your WordPress theme got updated and changed permissions.
2) Something else updated the permissions on your wp-content folder or one below it.
Your hosting provider should be able to help but if you have any way to modify those permissions try making them looser – 755 maybe?
That’s what I was thinking as well, but I checked permissions and everything is rather loose at 755. Doing some googling it looks like there’s one other scenario, PHP is running under a different username. Whenever I try to install a plugin or do an update, as of last night, it’s asking me for FTP credentials, which indicates that WP isn’t able to access the file system for some reason. I opened a ticket with the web host.
I think I might be looking for a different blogging platform that doesn’t require constant tweaking. I just want to be able to post stuff to the internet without thinking about the plumbing behind the software. I do enough of that during the day.