Title: File Permissions & Size Check
Author: wycks
Published: <strong>28 August 2011</strong>
Last modified: 13 March 2013

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest three major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# File Permissions & Size Check

 By [wycks](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wycks/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-file-permission-check.zip)

 * [Details](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-file-permission-check/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-file-permission-check/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-file-permission-check/#installation)
 * [Development](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-file-permission-check/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-file-permission-check/)

## Description

Will add a little “x” next to any files/folders set to 777, since this is inherently
insecure. Checks all recursive folders that come with a default WordPress install.

This plugin can be CPU intensive as it iterates over your whole folder/file structure
to gather statistics.

Notes :

 * Checks root, wp-admin, wp-content, wp-includes and all sub folders
 * Includes your plugin and theme folders
 * Ignores images, text, CSS , and translation files
 * Will exclude the cache folders since they contain to many files to scan.
 * Requires PHP 5.1.2 or greater
 * Please run this during low traffic.

**This plugin will not return accurate results under IIS or WAMP stack due to how
windows handles file permissions.**

## Screenshots

[⌊What it looks like.⌉⌊What it looks like.⌉[

What it looks like.

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

 1. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

  Why did you make this

I don’t know, sometimes people want to see their permissions I guess.

  Will this work on Windows

Yes but the permissions are not accurate.

## Reviews

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## Contributors and Developers

“File Permissions & Size Check” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ wycks ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wycks/)

[Translate “File Permissions & Size Check” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-file-permission-check)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-file-permission-check/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-file-permission-check/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-file-permission-check/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-file-permission-check/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Change Log

1.04 – Completely re-wrote the plugin from scratch
 1.03 – Removed Jquery.tools 
and replaced with jQuery.UI 1.02 – fixed directory problem for loading CSS and

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.4**
 *  Last updated **14 years ago**
 *  Active installations **300+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.5.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-file-permission-check/)
 * Tags
 * [check](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/check/)[file](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/file/)
   [folders](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/folders/)[permissions](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/permissions/)
   [size](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/size/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-file-permission-check/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.8 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ wycks ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wycks/)

## Support

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