Further WordPress upgrade issues

This post was written 2 years 7 months 23 days days old, so is a bit old now. Feel free to read and comment on this post, just remember some things change with time and any facts in this post may not be accurate anymore.

Since upgrading to 2.8 I’ve come across another issue. However, I’ve seen numerous people reporting the same problem after upgrades to previous WordPress versions, so I don’t think this is 2.8 specific.

Anyway, I couldn’t automatically update any of my plugins. I was getting an error along the lines of…

Could not copy file: /public_html/wp-content/upgrade/.....

This was also the error that stopped me from automatically updating WordPress as well. Anyway, the fix was simple – I used my FTP application to change the permissions on the upgrade folder. This seemed to cure it.