Title: Writeable Directory?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Writeable Directory?

 *  [fokjulle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fokjulle/)
 * (@fokjulle)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/writeable-directory/)
 * I started a post, and attempted to use the “upload image” feature, under the 
   post. It told me that the parent directory wasn’t writeable. So I made the wp-
   content directory writeable, and it worked.
 * But is it okay for me to leave this directory writeable? Is it secure?

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/writeable-directory/#post-407861)
 * its not secure, by any means, but its required to have it world-writable if you
   wish to upload.
 * Take it or leave it.
 * You can chmod it back to something more secure if youre nervous, and adjust it
   when you need to upload. That does work too.
 * —–
 * fwiw, NO world-writable directory should EVER be considered secure.

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