WordPress Updates Without FTP

Normally when you try and update your wordpress it will prompt you for “connection information”. It wants FTP or FTPS information.

If you make the /wp-content folder writable by the webserver, it won’t prompt you anymore and will pull updates directly.

Generally the apache service is run by user apache. You can change ownership of the folder to apache and then add writability.

chown -R apache wp-content
chmod -R 751 wp-content

Back to being lazy, your welcome.