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I am wanting to download themes from my localhost install of Wordpress. My issue is that anytime I click download, I get a pop-up asking me for Connection Information.

I tried to input localhost and my Wordpress username and password, but it will not download. What step have I missed here?

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And I am running localhost on a Ubuntu laptop with LAMP installed.

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This is an image of the request screen that I get, where I input localhost and my valid username and password

And this is an image of the error I receive when I try those reds

Questions that are too localized (such as syntax errors, code with restricted access, hacked sites, hosting or support issues) are not in scope. See how do I ask a good question?

Closed 5 years ago.

I am wanting to download themes from my localhost install of Wordpress. My issue is that anytime I click download, I get a pop-up asking me for Connection Information.

I tried to input localhost and my Wordpress username and password, but it will not download. What step have I missed here?

edit
And I am running localhost on a Ubuntu laptop with LAMP installed.

edit 2
This is an image of the request screen that I get, where I input localhost and my valid username and password

And this is an image of the error I receive when I try those reds

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2 Answers 2

Probably your local FTP service is not running. You can verify this by trying to connect to the local FTP server at the command prompt:

ftp localserver

and it will ask for your credentials.

Also possible is that 'localserver' is not being resolved locally. You can check that with a command

nslookup localserver

And seeing if it gives you your servers' IP address.

But this is not a WP Development question. Ask the googles/bings/ducks for help with enabling/starting your local FTP service.

Try entering your system username and password. It sounds like you don't have permissions set correctly (or rather, in LAMP they are but not for what you are trying to do with WordPress). Also, you might have a look at the FS_METHOD constant and try setting it in to ftpext (along with the other required settings) in wp-config.php.

If these things don't work, consider editing your question to include a screen shot of the username and password window you are seeing so that we know exactly which screen is blocking you.