WordPress asking for FTP username/password?

Are you annoyed with your wordpress install asking you for your FTP cradentials everytime you try to upgrade a plugin? I know I was.  Thankfully, there’s a simple solution which will save the FTP login (username/password/server) so WordPress stops asking you for them.  Here’s how you do it.

1. Locate your WordPress root diectory and find the “wp-config.php” file.
2. Edit the file and insert this somewhere in the middle as it’s own block, we normally put it after the mysql username/password block.

define("FTP_HOST", "localhost");
define("FTP_USER", "yourftpusername");
define("FTP_PASS", "yourftppassword");

Once you’ve made that edit, save the file and voila! No more punching in your ftp username and password all the time.

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