{"id":18968856,"date":"2026-07-18T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/cannot-manually-update\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T16:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:09:10","slug":"cannot-manually-update","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/cannot-manually-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannot manually update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I tried to mollify Wordfence by &#8220;manually updating&#8221;, in order to get rid of the annoying reminder, I got this error message: &#8220;Please verify you have permissions to write to the \/wp-content\/wflogs directory.&#8221; I am the website administrator, so don&#8217;t understand this error message. How can I correct? &#8211;Rick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18968856","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-error-messages"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18968856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18968856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18968856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}