Title: Installing Plugins
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Installing Plugins

 *  [om_1109](https://wordpress.org/support/users/om_1109/)
 * (@om_1109)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-7/)
 * Hi, can anyone tell me which details wordpress is referring to when it asks for
   hostname, username and password when automatically installing plugins, or when
   trying to do the one step wordpress upgrade?

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-7/#post-987338)
 * your ftp details
 *  Thread Starter [om_1109](https://wordpress.org/support/users/om_1109/)
 * (@om_1109)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-7/#post-987339)
 * this doesn’t seem to be working…
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-7/#post-987340)
 * that is what is required, however
    check with host to see if they allow this 
   also on some hosts you have to add port number
 * example.com:21
 *  Thread Starter [om_1109](https://wordpress.org/support/users/om_1109/)
 * (@om_1109)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-7/#post-987342)
 * okay sorry its working now. But can I ask something else: when i try to do things
   like add pictures to blog posts, it says the parent permissions are not configured
   correctlt, but i am unsure what folder or files to change the permissions on,
   and what to change them to…
 *  [Ryan S](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryan_accuwebhosting/)
 * (@ryan_accuwebhosting)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-7/#post-987344)
 * You need to assign 755 permission to the /wp-content/upload folder. You can check
   further permissions here:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions#Permission_Scheme_for_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions#Permission_Scheme_for_WordPress)
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-7/#post-987346)
 * on some hosts, the 1st time you do this /wp-content must be chmod 777
    after 
   that should work at 755
 *  Thread Starter [om_1109](https://wordpress.org/support/users/om_1109/)
 * (@om_1109)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-7/#post-987348)
 * so for 755, what does each of the three (user, group and other) get?
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-7/#post-987366)
 * owner
    read write execute
 * group
    read execute
 * public
    read execute

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugins-7/#post-987366)
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