Summary

After the WP Rocket repair, wp-admin still showed a related plugin update failure for Akismet: Update failed: Could not create directory under /home/1615235.cloudwaysapps.com/fctbkwwahp/public_html/wp-content/upgrade/akismet.5.7.

Work Completed

• Confirmed the live Cloudways path was still /home/1615235.cloudwaysapps.com/fctbkwwahp/public_html.
• Confirmed Akismet was active at 5.6 with an update available.
• Found wp-content/upgrade at 755, which blocked the web/PHP group from creating plugin update staging folders through wp-admin.
• Created rollback snapshot: /home/master/wp-plugin-upgrade-permission-repair-20260517-202016.
• Normalized wp-content/upgrade to 2775.
• Updated Akismet from 5.6 to 5.7.
• Added a plugin-updater staging guardrail to Skills/wp-site-health/SKILL.md, now version 1.0.5, and mirrored it to both Claude skill locations.
• Updated the local WP Rocket repair/update log with the Akismet follow-up evidence.
• Committed the scoped repo update as c0625cff Add WordPress plugin updater guardrail.

QA Evidence

• WP-CLI update result: akismet 5.6 -> 5.7 Updated.
• Post-update plugin check: akismet,active,5.7,none.
• Staging directory check: master_nawmwdgbhg:www-data 2775 wp-content/upgrade.
• Syntax check: No syntax errors detected in wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.php.
• Authenticated Plugins page: plugins_status=200, akismet_failed_update_notice_matches=0, akismet_5_7_matches=2, akismet_update_row_matches=0.
• Public homepage: home_status=200.

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