We often encounter issues in our WordPress instances. The issues such as permission-related errors, images are not being visible after upload, etc.

Most of the time the root cause of the issue will be a folder or file being created or uploaded or changed with a wrong file system permission.

In this article, I am giving you two commands that will correct the folders and file permissions of a WordPress instance recursively.

1. You need to access the SSH terminal session of your hosting account
2. Change the directory to the folder root folder of WordPress (where the index.php file is).
3. Run the following two commands 

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; 

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

This will give the underlying folders and files of your WordPress instance the correct permission it requires.

Note: The owner of the file should be the account user. The group should be the same user if the user is a member of the webserver group or the webserver group should be the group of the files and folders.