reader77writer

Hi-

I wanted to report how this issue was solved. I talked on the phone to Verio, my ISP for over an hour. Now I know that Verio (and maybe other ISPs) does not allow the access that is necessary to edit templates and themes. This access is not possible by FTPing the files, then editing, and uploading the revised files. It is also impossible to edit using the editing panel under Managing > Files in your administrative panel.

If you keep getting this message – “If this file were writable you could edit it,” ask your ISP directly if you have access to the files within WordPress so you can retrieve them by FTP and edit them.

The only revisions I can do are those specifically listed on the tags, such as changing the header colors and wording and very few others. This means that all the WordPress instructions on how to change theme features, headers, footers, load images, chmod, etc. do not apply to my blog.

Hope this helps others save a little time.

I’ll read those links right now. I’ve been using FTP quite a while and never have had problems. For this WordPress file, though, it doesn’t work –

– to double click it
– to transfer it to my computer by ascii or binary (tried both just in case)

I’d very much like to have your help with this!

Pam

Thank you! I’m using ws-ftp95 on my laptop (I have that with me) and ws-ftp professional on my home computer.

Right now I have AOL Instant Messanger. Would that work for you?

Pam

In FTP, I see only 1 thing called WordPress. It’s labeled a link. I right-click and try to change chmod to 666 – try anything to get into the WordPress files but no luck.

How do I get to the WordPress files to tweak a template?

Been up nearly all night reading old posts and trying to make this work. Would appreciate your help.

Pam

I tried inputting this –
https://mydomainname.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/your_theme/your_theme_files

and got this response –
The requested URL /wordpress/wp-content/themes/your_theme/your_theme_files was not found on this server.

Then I truncated it to https://mydomainname.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/
and got this index-
Parent Directory 31-Jul-2006 22:37 –
[DIR] almost-spring/ 31-Jul-2006 22:37 –
[DIR] classic/ 31-Jul-2006 22:37 –
[DIR] default/ 31-Jul-2006 22:37 –
[DIR] ocadia/

But when I click on any one of them, I get this message –
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_header() in /usr/local/wordpress-2.0.2/wp-content/themes/classic/index.php on line 2

What am I doing wrong?

Pam

Sorry to be asking such a basic question –
– but when I type
wp-content/themes/your_theme/your_theme_files
as a URL – I get a WordPress page about Codex Documentation.

I must not be understanding. Where do I type it – and is that all I type?

Pam

WordPress is installed. I have a site at Verio and they installed it. Right now I’m trying to edit the theme beyond what I can do with the Dashboard > Presentation > Header Image and Color.