Wordpress: Unable to locate WordPress Plugin directory

Automatic plug-in updates are cool, but only when they work. I made attempts to understand what’s wrong with the “update automatically” feature several times, and always hit the same message after entering my FTP details: “Unable to locate WordPress Plugin directory”.

As a computer geek, I know why it needs FTP, but it wasn’t really clear what exactly it was looking for in the root of the FTP directory and why it didn’t find it. I figured that my server setup is a bit different from what they expected, and scanned the sources for clues.

Apparently, they are looking for the wp-settings.php file which is sitting in the root of the WP installation. So when they find the file, they know where to start looking for plug-ins folder. In my case, it was light years away from the FTP root, so here’s what I did:

• Created an FTP user specifically for the blog
• Made the root folder of the blog be the home directory of this user
• Fed the user name and the password to WP when it asked for the FTP again

All went very nicely and hassle-free. Now you know what to do when you see “Unable to locate WordPress Plugin directory” when attempting to update your plug-ins automatically.

摘自http://blog.noizeramp.com/2008/09/10/wordpress-unable-to-locate-wordpress-plugin-directory/

当使用Wordpress 2.7的plug-in自动安装功能，出现Unable to locate WordPress Plugin directory时，问题出在你的网站的主要文件夹与Wordpress的主要文件夹并不是同样路径（当然这个设置没有错误，只是Wordpress 2.7的plug-in自动安装功能太笨了）。

1。用手动安装，把plug-in的文件夹放入wp-content/plugins/就可以解决你的问题。

2。如果你还是坚持要用自动安装功能的话，那就在安装Wordpress的过程，把wordpress里的文件放入你网站的root folder吧，放在subfolder是用不到这个功能的。