Title: Cannot update WP or upload plugins
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Cannot update WP or upload plugins

 *  Resolved [IntegrityWebDev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/integritywebdev/)
 * (@integritywebdev)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-wp-or-upload-plugins/)
 * I have a website that I installed WP on a few months back but haven’t worked 
   on beyond the install of WP and a theme. I went back to it today and needed to
   update WP and install a few plugins.
 * When I went to do that it started asking me for FTP info, which was new to me.
   After research I added said FTP info into the wp-config file. Now when I go to
   update, where it should start putting info on the screen about downloading and
   updating the files I get nothing in the right pane of the dashboard.
 * I’ve tried changing wp-content to 777 and still nothing. I can FTP but I needd
   to be able to update via WP.
 * I’m stumped. Any thoughts?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-wp-or-upload-plugins/#post-3506257)
 * Check your FTP details with your hosts.
 *  Thread Starter [IntegrityWebDev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/integritywebdev/)
 * (@integritywebdev)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-wp-or-upload-plugins/#post-3506325)
 * It turned out to be host-specific issue. Having to use a PHP wrapper to make 
   it work. Did that and all is well.

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 * [ftp](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ftp/)
 * [permissions](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permissions/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [IntegrityWebDev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/integritywebdev/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-wp-or-upload-plugins/#post-3506325)
 * Status: resolved

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