• I have edited themes many times but I installed another word press blog the other day and the theme edit says “If this file were writable you could edit it.”

    And this is on any theme I install even the default one ?

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  • It will be on that server. I suggest you don’t use the theme editor anyway, use ftp and edit locally.

    Thread Starter danephillips

    (@danephillips)

    Well I set permission to 755 or 777 because I want to
    do it the same way I always do 🙁

    755 or 777 .. thats the directory, thats NOT the theme files themselves. read 🙂

    Thread Starter danephillips

    (@danephillips)

    Permission 755 or 777 is allowing the blog theme to be rewritten and it solved my problem,I just needed to wait a little after setting 🙂

    Yes, but leaving the files themselves with permissions set at that high a level is just you putting your site out there, saying “Hack me! Hack me! I’m completely insecure!” Know what I mean?

    If you don’t want some strange person coming along and completley ruining your website, I’d pick a better set of permissions to use for your files. Change them to 644 – or if you plan to keep the setting you have now, when you’re finished making your changes, CHMOD your files back to what they were.

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