Comments on: WordPress: Enabling SSH/SFTP Updates

By: saiyajin

saiyajin — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:23:09 +0000

I think the WordPress SSH SFTP Updater Support plugin makes the whole process a ton easier:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ssh-sftp-updater-support/

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:53:25 +0000

Thanks a million for this. Really didn’t want to use FTP.

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By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:44:15 +0000

You Are Welcome! Always happy to share those silly little tips that should be _sooo_ much easier to find.

By: Matthew Irvine

Matthew Irvine — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:59:38 +0000

Thank you so so so very much! :)

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By: Jøran Haugli

Jøran Haugli — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:24:01 +0000

Thanks for this great post ! This should be set on wordpress first page ;)

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:23:26 +0000

“Upgrade” to SFTP is good, in fact I refuse to install FTP on any of my servers – point blank. Frankly, I’m surprised this information is so hard to find. WordPress should have the sftp option greyed out (but visible) on ALL installs with some alt text like “please install libssh for PHP to enable this”. Then at least people would know they have the option.

Good luck!

By: Will

Will — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:11:02 +0000

That is so true, ftp reigned supreme for a long time but it should now lay it’s hat to rest.

I’ve now just now used this again for another friend who had similar user/group issues as I had and he’s well chuffed. He’s also closed his ftp ports and only opens them once a week during his back-up routine, and I’m working on shifting that to SFTP too now that libssh2 is installed.

More than a dozen of my other friends have also been happy for me to switch them (although to be honest I’m not sure some of them knew what I done, all they heard was ‘it’s safer’ and told me to go ahead haha!) to SFTP too, one of which runs a hosting server with over 2000 WordPress installs on it. You have helped so many people be just that little bit safer alround with this post. I recommended this to my VPS provider and they are considering adding it to their default install too as they have been plagued recently with support tickets regarding the user/group issues after a failed update.

This, my friend, has been one hell of a find for me. Thank you very much!

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:29:13 +0000

^_^

Glad to help. It’s old, but some stuff never goes bad. Unfortunately FTP has not died the death some of us would have liked. No way in hell I’m installing it on my server just for wordpress. Persevere!