🔧 Fixes WordPress upload directories permissions being set to root, use it with crontab.

cron-fix-wordpress-upload-permissions.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Set this to your server's owner user (normally www-data)
user="www-data:www-data"

# Set this to the path to your wp-content
wp_content_path="/var/www/html/wp-content"

# Gets current year and month numbers
year=`date +%Y`
month=`date +%m`

# Creates the directories
mkdir "$wp_content_path/uploads"
mkdir "$wp_content_path/uploads/$year"
mkdir "$wp_content_path/uploads/$year/$month"

# Updates both the uploads, current year and current month directories
chown $user "$wp_content_path/uploads"
chown $user "$wp_content_path/uploads/$year"
chown $user "$wp_content_path/uploads/$year/$month"