No “Update” button for editing my own theme

  • aprilg

    (@aprilg)


    16 years, 3 months ago

    I am new to WordPress. I have been reading the codex for a week. I have the basics up and running, but now, I copied the “default” theme to a new subdir.and want to make changes to have my own theme. I have changed the theme for my site to point to this new theme. When I go to Edit Themes, I have no “Update” button. I have read all about the permissions, changed everything from the “themes” subdir on down (even though I only wanted to edit my new subdir files) to 775 as suggested, but no glory. I know I can edit files and FTP them up, but doesn’t this rather defeat a big purpose of WordPress making maintenance of sites easy?! Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Can you edit any of your installed themes?

    Thread Starter aprilg

    (@aprilg)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    No, there is no “Update” (or “Save”) button on the “Edit” screen at all.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Have you tried deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    Thread Starter aprilg

    (@aprilg)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Oops, I meant to mention that in my original post, since I saw that recommendation elsewhere – I have no plugins activated. (I had actually only added one – the codexsearch – but since deactivated it because I didn’t have time to play with it’s positioning and it was overlapping things I wanted to be able to see as I learned WordPress.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Try renaming your current theme folder via FTP to reactivate the default theme – just in case it’s a theme issue.

    Thread Starter aprilg

    (@aprilg)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    No difference. The “Update” button is just not on the Edit Themes page. I even tried moving the whole new theme folder out of the “themes” folder so that I was back to just the Default and Classic themes, but still no ability to edit! Just FYI, I followed the codex instructions on copying the “default” themes subdir to a new subdir and it correctly appeared as an available theme for me to chose from, but I cannot edit any of them. Please help. I’m more or less at a standstill because trying to make little adjustments and FTPing in between them all will take way too long.

    Thread Starter aprilg

    (@aprilg)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Also, I have tried in both Firefox and IE, so it doesn’t appear to be a browser thing…

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Try re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download of WordPress.

    Thread Starter aprilg

    (@aprilg)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    I downloaded the .tar.gz again, uncompressed again, re-set all the “themes” files/folders to 775 and still no “Update File” button!

    Thread Starter aprilg

    (@aprilg)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Despite the 775 chmod, I still get the “You need to make this file writable before you can save your changes. See the Codex for more information.” instead of the “Update File” button…

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Try 777.

    Thread Starter aprilg

    (@aprilg)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Well, I daresay, that worked, but I feel this is an extremely unsafe solution. Can you think of a work around for this? (Or are you going to say “set the permissions to 777 while you’re working on it and set them back when you’re not” – I hope not.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    To be honest, I’m curious as to whether this is some sort of permissions issue. I agree that 777 is not any kind of long term solution but trying it for a few minutes might rule out another possible cause.

    Thread Starter aprilg

    (@aprilg)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    No, you are right, I meant I tried it and it DID work – I just don’t prefer to leave the settings at 777. Here’s a thought. If the “owner” and “group” are, say “joeuser”, but I’m logging into the dashboard as the default “admin”, would that make a difference?

    Thread Starter aprilg

    (@aprilg)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Well, as an update. I tried adding a “joeuser” user with administrative level privileges and logging in as that instead of admin, while changing the permissions back to 775 and the button disappeared again.

    Is there another way rather than leaving ourselves so wide open like this?

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