If you are working on your WordPress locally, before uploading it for the world to see, thank you. If you are new to this, there are a few changes you will need to make in order to get everything working properly.

Installing Plugins Locally

If you try to install themes on default, you will get this:

It looks similar to the success message, but if you read through it, you’ll see that it failed.

Fortunately, it’s a simple fix. In your WordPress directory, set privileges for everyone to “Read & Write” for wp-content/plugins.

Adding Media Locally

Similar to plugins, adding media to your localhost will fail on default. Again, it’s a pretty easy fix. In your WordPress directory, set privileges for everyone to “Read & Write” for wp-content.

Recap

To make plugins and media work on your localhost, set the following directories to have “Read & Write” privileges for everyone:

• wp-content/plugins
• wp-content