Segue abaixo o correto permissionamento de arquivos do WordPress
[sourcecode language="shell"]chown www-data:www-data -R * # Let apache be owner
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; # Change directory permissions rwxr-xr-x
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; # Change file permissions rw-r--r--
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