Title: Problem installing themes
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problem installing themes

 *  [rubyfruitradio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyfruitradio/)
 * (@rubyfruitradio)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-installing-themes/)
 * I was having an issue installing themes earlier where it told me that it could
   not find the wp content folder. I found the fix for that (altering the wp config
   file) then, when I try to install a theme, I get
    Installing the theme. Could
   not create directory. ../wp-content/themes/rockwell_wp1/ Theme Install Failed.
 * so I just FTPed into the directory, created the folder and dragged the stuff 
   for the theme in there.
 * However, now, I can’t edit particular files (like header.php). It tells me that
   the file needs to be writeable. How do I do that??

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-installing-themes/#post-1438264)
 * > It tells me that the file needs to be writeable
 * on some servers it is required that theme files have chmod 666 to edit from the
   WP editor
    always set back to 644 when finished
 *  Thread Starter [rubyfruitradio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyfruitradio/)
 * (@rubyfruitradio)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-installing-themes/#post-1438415)
 * I am not sure what that means or how to fix it. the permissions have write checked
   but the numeric value is 732. is that the number I need to change?
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-installing-themes/#post-1438425)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions)
 *  Thread Starter [rubyfruitradio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyfruitradio/)
 * (@rubyfruitradio)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-installing-themes/#post-1438534)
 * I changed the value to several different ones and none of them worked. They didn’t
   seem to stick. I tried 666, 644 and a few others, but it keeps getting stuck 
   on chmod 755 -rwxr-xr-x (which in theory should work for me.
 * Any ideas?

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 * [install themes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/install-themes/)
 * [writeable](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/writeable/)

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 * Last reply from: [rubyfruitradio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rubyfruitradio/)
 * Last activity: [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-installing-themes/#post-1438534)
 * Status: not resolved

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