WordPress Plugins – Upgrade Automatically
Q: Just exactly what are you supposed to enter for the hostname, username, and password when doing a WordPress plugin using the automatic upgrade feature? It’s not my MySQL wordpress database and it’s not my blog’s username and password. WordPress offers no hint.
A: It’s your web hosting account information. More exactly, the information for logging into your FTP account.
Hostname = yourdomain.com
Username = your FTP username
Password = your FTP password
OMG! This works! I have some blogs whose plugins automatically upgrade ok and others asking for the login information. I could never get it right and like you said, there is no hint like with other parameters in the settings. Thanks so much for sharing this tip.