Title: wp-plugin manager
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# wp-plugin manager

 *  [Tek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tek/)
 * (@tek)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-plugin-manager/)
 * Hi.. I am thinking that I need to do a total new install and loose all of my 
   past 3 years of posts. =( Since I went to 1.5, I’ve had so many goofy problems.
 * This is about the wp-plugin manager however.
 * Has anyone else had permission problems? I am trying to install image headlines
   and I cannot modify the permissions of those files or folders no matter what,
   yet anything I manually installed, I can. Its the weirdest thing!

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-plugin-manager/#post-156377)
 * Do you have the latest version of wp-plugin manager?
 * [http://wp-plugins.net/index.php?id=37](http://wp-plugins.net/index.php?id=37)
 *  [Nick Momrik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtdewvirus/)
 * (@mtdewvirus)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-plugin-manager/#post-156379)
 * If you are unable to modify the permissions on files/folders it sounds like you
   are not the owner of those files on your server. If they were created by a script
   they may have been created with a different user account.
 *  [pirateking](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pirateking/)
 * (@pirateking)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-plugin-manager/#post-156411)
 * I’ve had huge permission problems. It installs the plugins using the UID/GID 
   of the webserver. Which means you usually don’t have rights to delete the plugins.
   
   In order to fix it, I had to whip up a quick script that will do it. In this 
   example, the folder I couldn’t delete was the spell-plugin.
 * ‘
    <? php chmod(“./spell-plugin”, 0777); ?> ‘ just save that as a fix.php file
   in the same folder and call it from a web browser. Down and dirty but it worked
   for me.
 *  Thread Starter [Tek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tek/)
 * (@tek)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-plugin-manager/#post-156469)
 * Yeah…. Hmmm so this means that
 * 1. I cannot use the plugin manager?
    2. I will need to use scripts to delete 
   folders?
 * Just odd… becasue if I have the admin login to my server, I just don’t understand
   why I don’t have carte blanche rights to all files and folders in there. I’ve
   never seen anything like it.
 *  [pirateking](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pirateking/)
 * (@pirateking)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-plugin-manager/#post-156758)
 * If you have root access to the server, you should be able to delete. If you have
   a standard account with a host provider, you’ll fall into the same situation 
   where you don’t have full access to everything in your user directory.
 *  [jpettit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpettit/)
 * (@jpettit)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-plugin-manager/#post-156759)
 * you probably don’t have root access unless you built up the server yourself…you
   just have admin access to you directory.
    this problem is not all that uncommon.
   i believe this plugin creates files/directories with httpd assigned as owner.
   you can then delete them. Something like this php script will help you: [http://gallery.menalto.com/local/downloads/cleanup/cleanup.php.gz](http://gallery.menalto.com/local/downloads/cleanup/cleanup.php.gz)
   it uses the httpd to chmod 777 on the files you specify…then you can delete them.

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 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [jpettit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpettit/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-plugin-manager/#post-156759)
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