Ok, so I’ve seen a fair amount of “run this script to fix your permissions” posts about, and for a number of reasons I don’t really like them.

Not saying that mine is perfect of course, but the emphasis is trying to be around security.

With all security, you’re always compromising convenience. If you really want to secure your WordPress file ownership and permissions. Give it user:apache and 750/640 permissions throughout. But it won’t do you much good when it comes to installing plugins, etc.

So, here’s what you can do.