Title: Settings Form Not Saving
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Settings Form Not Saving

 *  [bbuster79](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbuster79/)
 * (@bbuster79)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/settings-form-not-saving/)
 * When I fill out the entire form and click the save button the entire form is 
   refreshed and all the form fields are reverted to their defaults. Nothing saves.
   Is it likely I have an issue with my file permissions? Does WP Mail SMTP need
   to write to anything other than the database?
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 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/settings-form-not-saving/)
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