Hi all,

As per advice in IRC; I have been updating my wordpress manually. I'm running ubuntu 10.04 and have several plugins installed for my wordpress site.

Does anyone have an efficient way of updating wordpress plugins via a secure method? I've read that FTP or web server write access is not a safe route.

Any advice?

Thanks!

The quickest way is to download the zip or tar files via a tool such as curl or wget then extract them, if you're downloading a tar file you can even pipe the wget output to tar so it downloads and extracts in one go i.e.

wget -O - urltothedownload | tar -xf -

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