How do I make the theme editing files “Group Writable”

  • sjhagedo

    (@sjhagedo)


    15 years ago

    Whenever I go to Presentation –> Theme Editor, each aspect of the theme has these words “If this file were writable you could edit it.” below the edit window. As an administrator of the site I have full file editing/changing permissions. I read about making theme files “Group Writable”. Would that solve this problem? If so, how do I go about doing that?

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  • uwiuw

    (@uwiuw)

    you need to change it the permission via cpanel. log to you host service

    Thread Starter sjhagedo

    (@sjhagedo)

    What is cpanel? And how do i access it? What do you mean log into host service?

    uwiuw

    (@uwiuw)

    reference to cpanel in wikipedia cpanel

    sjhagedo, usually, the location of cpanel is [yourdomain.com]/cpanel

    ps : contact your server administrator. they will help you how to connect to your cpanel

    Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    Some very good information located here, too.

    Changing File Permissions

    Thread Starter sjhagedo

    (@sjhagedo)

    Yeah, I found that page too, but it doesn’t make sense to me. ?? I feel very stupid *blush*

    Thread Starter sjhagedo

    (@sjhagedo)

    Under Users –> Roles it says that I have full file permissions.. I don’t understand why I can’t edit themes, when it says under my permissions that I can.

    Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    It means that you have all user rights as an administrator in your wordpress site.

    The file you need to edit is actually subject to the permissions given to it by the server it lives on. You need to change the permissions on the file before the wordpress built in editor can successfully make changes to it.

    A) locate the theme file you want to edit.
    B) change permissions on that file to at least 666.
    C) edit the file using the wordpress theme editor and save the changes.
    D) change the file permissions back to 644 when you are done.

    An alternative to all this file permission changing…. make your edits using an ftp client, or from the file manager provided for you in your hosts control panel.

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