I’m running into the FTP requirement that people were having earlier in the year. This is not happening with sites I pull from Kinsta, it is happening with adding new sites directly. I tried adding define(‘FS_METHOD’,‘direct’); to the wp-config but the issue persisted. Then I tried issuing docker…

Windows 10 Pro upload theme requires FTP Credentials

michael (Michael) August 5, 2021, 2:23pm 4

Between this issue and, I’m thinking it might be best to completely remove and re-install both Docker and DevKinsta.

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