A series of scripts to manage the permissions for various wordpress directories in bulk. The *lock* scripts will remove write access to the files while the *unlock* scripts will add it.

lock_wp-content.sh

#!/bin/bash

LOCKFILE="/home/tad/scripts/.unlocked_wp-content"
WPDIR="/var/www/localhost/htdocs/blog/wp/wp-content"

if [ -f $LOCKFILE ]; then
        echo "Locking WP-Content Directory"
        find $WPDIR -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
        find $WPDIR -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
        rm -f $LOCKFILE
else
        echo "WP-Content Directory Already Locked"
fi

lock_wp.sh

#!/bin/bash

LOCKFILE="/home/tad/scripts/.unlocked_wp-content"
WPDIR="/var/www/localhost/htdocs/blog/wp/wp-content"

if [ ! -f $LOCKFILE ]; then
        echo "Unlocking WP-Content Directory"
        find $WPDIR -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
        find $WPDIR -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
        touch $LOCKFILE
else
        echo "WP-Content Directory Already Unlocked"
fi

unlock_wp-content.sh

#!/bin/bash

LOCKFILE="/home/tad/scripts/.unlocked_wp-content"
WPDIR="/var/www/localhost/htdocs/blog/wp/wp-content"

if [ ! -f $LOCKFILE ]; then
        echo "Unlocking WP-Content Directory"
        find $WPDIR -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
        find $WPDIR -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
        touch $LOCKFILE
else
        echo "WP-Content Directory Already Unlocked"
fi

unlock_wp.sh

!/bin/bash
 
LOCKFILE="/home/tad/scripts/.unlocked_wp"
LOCKCONTENT="/home/tad/scripts/.unlocked_wp-content"
WPDIR="/var/www/localhost/htdocs/blog/wp/"
 
if [ ! -f $LOCKFILE ]; then
        echo "Unlocking WP Directory"
        find $WPDIR -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
        find $WPDIR -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
        touch $LOCKFILE
 
        if [ ! -f $LOCKCONTENT ]; then
                touch $LOCKCONTENT
        fi
else
        echo "WP Directory Already Unlocked"
fi