SFTP & Updating Plugins

you don’t have this?

Connection Type
Connection Type FTP
FTPS (SSL)

when you upgrade a plugin?

hmmm…maybe try sftp.example.com in host field

No. I only see:

Connection Type FTP

What do you mean ‘host field’ ?

SFTP is different to FTPS – see here for more information https://devioustree.co.uk/2009/02/21/auto-update-wordpress-with-sftp/ and here https://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/make_ssh_connections_with_php/

I do not understand why sftp is not supported natively by WordPress. This really diminishes the auto update, plugin install, etc. functionality of a great platform.

@gawbul — Thanks for those links. They had exactly what I needed to enable SFTP plugin updates on my WordPress installations.

Very cool. B-)

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BTW, looking at what needs to be done for this, it’s not WP that doesn’t support SFTP, but the standard PHP installation.

You essentially have to install an SSH2 package for PHP (b/c SFTP is file transfer over an SSH connection). Once that’s done, WP automatically detects that your PHP is SFTP enabled, and offers that as one of your plugin update options.

@stabilpa. So how did you get that? One of the 2 links is not working anymore…