Title: Template modifications Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Template modifications * [Rog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rog/) * (@rog) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-modifications/) * Hi, I downloaded and installed a template. It works well. I want to modify some fonts and colors. So I change, say, a color number, but when I click on View site, I always get the same old template without the recent modification. I can’t see a Re-Publish button (like Blogger) or a Save button. Can you help? Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * [jinsan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jinsan/) * (@jinsan) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-modifications/#post-191045) * Do you have ftp access/ I’ve never used the admin area to modify a template myself. * What I do is use the FireFox Web Developer Plugin and edit the colours etc using the CSS editor, then I copy and paste any changes I made and paste it into style. css where the theme is. * Colours and so on are changed through the style.css, the content and structure is changed via the template. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-modifications/#post-191047) * Clear your browser’s cache. * [ifelse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ifelse/) * (@ifelse) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-modifications/#post-191048) * _“I can’t see a Re-Publish button (like Blogger) or a Save button.”_ There isn’t one. The site is generated dynamically i.e. it uses the template when the page is requested. * Thread Starter [Rog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rog/) * (@rog) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-modifications/#post-191147) * Thanks to all of you. But may be I missed something. * Have I to modify the style.css file through FireFTP (for example), then upload that new modified file on the hosting server? Am I right? I also install a Firefox extension named Web Developer 0.9.3; is this useful for this task? * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-modifications/#post-191212) * You can modify the file in the Presentation Panel. Just login to WordPress, go to “Presentation”, then to “Theme Editor”. * Thread Starter [Rog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rog/) * (@rog) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-modifications/#post-191457) * Sorry to bother you with this problem again. I waste a lot of time on that. 🙁 I’ve never been able to modify the style.css file in the Presentation Panel/Theme Editor. I tried all advices: clean the browser’s cache, use Firefox Web Developer, and so on. It’s frustrating because I believe that WordPress is wonderful to manage a blog, but maybe for a more advanced user 🙂 I thought that it could be possible to modify dynamically the template or CSS file through the Presentation Panel. I’m wrong. Sorry again and thank to you for trying to help me. * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-modifications/#post-191460) * You can modify/edit any file in the Presentation Panel provided it is writable. Which means you have to chmod them through your FTP client. Check at the bottom of the text area: if there is a note saying – _If this file was writable you could edit it._, your changes will not be saved! * Thread Starter [Rog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rog/) * (@rog) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-modifications/#post-191559) * My friends, it works! 🙂 I am a beginner and for me, ‘FTP’ looks like an motor oil brand name. So, imagine CHMOD, etc. I changed the ‘mod’ of the style.css file through my FTP client, then go to the Presentation Panel/Template Editor, makes some modifications, and TA-DA, the note ‘If this file was writable you could edit it’ disappears, and a cute ‘Update Files’ button appears. Now I see the message ‘File edited successfully’. Thank you so much. ps. I chmod the file for the value 666. For a security reason, do I have to re-chmod after the modifications to the initial value (644)? * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-modifications/#post-191560) * It would be a good idea…. always use the highest possible permissions…. * [nickroy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickroy/) * (@nickroy) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-modifications/#post-191792) * I have weird situation with my blog. Take a look at it: [http://www.nickroy.com/hrblog](http://www.nickroy.com/hrblog). There are all lines across the text, and looking really funky. This problem just happen this afternoon, and I have been emailing support with hostgator to figure out the problem, with no luck. * Then take a look at my othe blog, [http://www.nickroy.com/webkahuna](http://www.nickroy.com/webkahuna). This is how it is supposed to look. * What can you guys make of it? shoot me an email at [nick@nickroy.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-modifications/nick@nickroy.com?output_format=md) with your response. * Thanks * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-modifications/#post-191793) * Nick, both look just fine to me in Safari v2 and Firefox v1.0.4. However, there are quite a few validation errors for each blog that could be contributing to what you’re seeing (though I can’t see any problems). * These are for [http://www.nickroy.com/hrblog](http://www.nickroy.com/hrblog) : * [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nickroy.com%2Fhrblog%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=%28detect+automatically%29&ss=1](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nickroy.com%2Fhrblog%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=%28detect+automatically%29&ss=1) * And, these are for [http://www.nickroy.com/webkahuna](http://www.nickroy.com/webkahuna): * [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nickroy.com%2Fwebkahuna%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=%28detect+automatically%29&ss=1](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nickroy.com%2Fwebkahuna%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=%28detect+automatically%29&ss=1) * [nickroy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickroy/) * (@nickroy) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-modifications/#post-191794) * Thanks for the links, I’ll pass them on to the support guys at hostgator. * We’re using Internet Explorer, and we are seeing lines across the text. I just switch it back to the default theme, and it looks like it is broken apart now. The links on the right side are all the way down the page, and it is only on that one page. This is weird, because this just happened yesterday. * Right now, we’re re-installing wordpress onto the server. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-modifications/#post-191795) * Actually, the validation errors are things that you’ll have to fix yourself by editing your posts and template files. There’s nothing that your hosting provider can do for you there. 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