Trouble modifying functions.php

  • jasontpt

    (@jasontpt)


    12 years ago

    Hello everyone,

    First off, just to let you know I’m very inexperienced with webdesign, and this is my first time building a website so bare with me. I purchased a theme and also the yoast seo plugin. The theme designer said that the theme and yoast can conflict with each other when it comes to title tags, so he provided me with a line of code to insert at the end of the functions.php to resolve this. He also recommended I use the wp-editor plugin to make this easy to do.

    The problem is that after I add the code and hit “update file,” it says that it updated successfully, but when I go back to check the code I added isn’t there anymore. I asked the theme designer about this and he asked if I have the files setup to be writeable on the server and then linked me to this:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Editing_Files#Things_You_Need_to_Know

    From what I gather from that, I need to set the permission for the files to 666. So my question is, do you think that’s why it’s not working? Also, if that is the case, which files specifically to I need to give the 666 permission to? Thanks guys, I appreciate any help you can give me.

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    WordPress forums do not support commercial themes, you should contact your theme’s vendors.

    Thread Starter jasontpt

    (@jasontpt)

    Okay then just a general question… If I am going to edit a theme (commercial or otherwise,) do I need the files on my server to be set to 666? If so, which files?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Depends on your server. If you want to use the built-in theme editor, all files need to be group writable. If you do not want to use the built-in theme editor, all files can be writable only by your user account.

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