Let me start off by explaining why I wrote this tutorial. I have been hosting with SliceHost for quite some time now, and decided to mess around with Wordpress a bit instead of building something from scratch. After downloading and installing Wordpress I noticed it wanted FTP login details to install plugins etc from the Admin interface. That was a problem as I only have SSH / SFTP acces. (I never setup an FTP server because it would just take up more memory, I have a 256MB slice/vps.) Anyways, I was in a bit of a pickle, I didn’t want to have to upload each plugin by hand and then manually install through the admin section. Then I found some tutorials on how to set up SSH support in Wordpress, but they were a bit unclear. Hence my reason for writing this.