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All is green except for the next to last row in the bottom table. I'm getting red on:

Is the /home/.../wp-content/plugins/files folder writeable?

The user account used by your web-server needs to be granted write access to the following directory in order to configure the CiviCRM settings file:
//home/.../wp-content/plugins/files

I've set the permissions to 777, not sure what else to do to get this error message cleared.

Any ideas?

I tried changing permissions to 777 on each folder level above CiviCRM and still no luck clearing the message. Any ideas, I'd love to use this with WordPress, but on a vanilla installation I'm unable to get install to work.

I host it along with a lot of other sites via GreenGeeks.com.

Solved it! This may be useful for other WordPress users.

Generally there is no folder within the wp-content/plugsin folder called "files". You will have to manually create an empty folder within the plugins folder, label it "files" and set the permissions to 777.

Hi- I have a similar problem with a different installation.  I am trying to test CiviCRM on my laptop with XAMPP.  The Wordpress site works fine, and the installation almost works. My error is that the files /C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress/wp-content/plugins\files, and /C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress/wp-content/plugins\civicrm are not "writeable".  I see in the instructions this: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,5056.msg23720.html#msg23720--but the command line fixes seem not to work on my Windows Vista machine. (Naturally, I have already tried to change permissions every other way I could think of, Properties/ Security/ Edit/ Advanced, "taking ownership" of the file, blah blah blah. 

So I found this guy:http://www.grahamnott.com/2012/02/civicrm-wordpress-windows/   --and yes, when you comment-out the check to see whether the files are writable, everything turns green.  But then the install did not work on my XAMPP setup (and I didn't bother to copy the error messages, because I figured that the "work-around" Mr. Nott suggests is probably not the real issue or answer.

I've got 10 hours into this problem--I'm the exec of a small nonprofit, I don't mind working weekends--but I suspect a lot of people want to test CiviCRM on a local host prior to going live.  Most people use Windows; Windows, I know, is defective in the file permissions area, and quite properly the CiviCRM folks don't want to mess with Windows.  But this is a problem that was identified in 2008, and it's still not fixed!  All I have to do is change the damn permissions for two files, and, in theory, the thing will launch.  Can somebody tell me how?