Abacomancer

Somesh79: I wasn’t looking for a workaround so much as an explanation if one could be found. Like I said earlier, I have done successful manual plugin installs already. I’m confident the owner and group is set correctly. WordPress can edit plugin files via backend, and it can upload to the uploads folder with the same permissions. Even if they weren’t correct, setting everything to world writable would have bypassed that, as I understand it.

Somesh79: No errors come up with debug, it still just redirects to the ftp login credentials request page.
catacaustic: I thought the same, but on the other hand, my 777 permissions test should have “fixed” that problem.

So I am thinking that this might be a problem with the uploading directory being different from the directory it is looking for the upload. Unfortunately, I’m not sure how to further fix/test for this.
I’m making that guess based on the following:

• 777 permissions did not fix this
• I can edit plugin files (and save the changes) through the WP backend.- so wordpress/the server has write permissions
• The zip files are still showing up in the media gallery + uploads directory. – this just seems like it shouldn’t be happneing

Thanks for the help. I tried the method you gave, and it mostly works.

I had to remove the line $slideshow -> wp_head();
I assume this is because it contains files not allowed in the body. Unfortunately, since the portfolio items are inside of an existing page, I cannot give them their own head. To add this file, I would have to somehow trigger this call in the head when a portfolio item opens.

However, most everything for the gallery works appropriately as is (or can be fixed via styling), so I do not believe I will have to pursue that. The one problem I was having as a result of this is with ‘.slideshow-slider’. The CSS as-is without the header files forces it to width 22px with a high specificity and !important. Instead of fighting it, I just went into the files and removed the !important.

If you have a better solution, I would be glad to hear it. Either way, I am very happy I could get this working. Thank you again for your help.