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  • blake

    (@blake)


    When trying to use the theme editor, it says

    If this file was writable you could edit it.

    at the bottom of the screen.

    So I use my ftp client to go and change the permissions of the theme directory to 666, as suggested in another post here. As soon as I do that, I start having all kinds of major permissions problems and WP starts acting wacky, the site cannot be updated, new posts do not show up etc.

    What’s going on here?

    TIA!

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  • Thread Starter blake

    (@blake)

    Oh, btw… I’m entirely ignorant of unix, working under OSX 10.3.8 and using Fetch for ftp.

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    Chmod the file, not the directory! The file you want to edit.

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