WordPress file permissions

July 4, 2014 David Allan Web, 0

• All files should be owned by the actual user’s account, not the user account used for the httpd process.
• Group ownership is irrelevant, unless there’s specific group requirements for the web-server process permissions checking. This is not usually the case.
• All directories should be 755 or 750.
• All files should be 644 or 640. Exception: wp-config.php should be 600 to prevent other users on the server from reading it.
• No directories should ever be given 777, even upload directories. Since the php process is running as the owner of the files, it gets the owners permissions and can write to even a 755 directory.

WordPress Server Configurations Link

You can use your FTP client to change the permission modes, or you can use the following commands in your WordPress directory to quickly adjust the permissions of all of your files and folders:

sudo find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} +
sudo find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} +
sudo chmod 660 wp-config.php

Note that some Web servers are stricter than others. If yours is strict, then setting your wp-config.php to 660 might stop your website from working. In this case, just leave it as 664.

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