Upload a theme without FTP

Question

I have downloaded a theme and I'd like to install it. Now I'm in Appearance > Themes > Add > New/Upload Theme. WordPress wants an FTP access. Well, I'm at my local machine and no FTP server is listening the port 21.

I'm inspired by this post: Can I install/update WordPress plugins without providing FTP access?

So, they say that after granting write permissions, no FTP prompt will appear.

For simplicity of the learning (!) process I've allowed everything on the directory now.

michael@hp:/var/www/html$ ls -la | grep wp-content
drwxrwxrwx  5 root root  4096 дек 20 20:50 wp-content

Well, WordPress continues to ask for FTP access. Could you give me a kick here?

You can upload themes zip files directly through the administration area. — Douglas Santos, Dec 20 '17 at 18:20
Well, pardon if I was a bit obscure. I'm already in the WordPress dashboard. I'll modify my post a bit. — Michael, Dec 20 '17 at 18:23
I see. Try setting the ownership of the directory to your local server group/user — Douglas Santos, Dec 20 '17 at 18:30
mehulmpt, no. I'm on my local machine with a desktop Ubuntu. — Michael, Dec 20 '17 at 18:33
Douglas Santos, I have done sudo chown www-data wp-content/. Now the picture for ls -la is: drwxrwxrwx 5 www-data root 4096 Dec 20 21:24 wp-content. The same prompt for FTP. — Michael, Dec 20 '17 at 18:39
Douglas Santos, thank you. It really did the job. I was inattentive. If you organize your comment as an answer, I'd gladly accepted it. — Michael, Dec 20 '17 at 18:55

score 12 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 19 '18 at 19:39

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Check, that httpd user have permission "rw" to wp-content folder and add into wp-config.php file:

define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');

edited Apr 19 '18 at 19:39

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answered Apr 19 '18 at 19:36

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score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 19 '18 at 19:38

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Add the following code in your wp-config.php file:

define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');

edited Apr 19 '18 at 19:38

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answered Dec 20 '17 at 22:15

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Upload a theme without FTP

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