as far as I can make out this whole ‘write permissions’ issue should be flagged up in huge letters, flashing on and off, on the wordpress front page. My ISP installed version of worpress for general use, and surprise surprise, doesn’t allow new theme uploads or allow me to change permissions to alter files pertaining to the look of the site. My brother has been working in unix for 20 years, looked at the server requirements, and thought they were just a bit etraordinary. He seems to think that going around altering file permissions to 666 is madness unless you own your own server, which only you have access to. Which most people don’t. Having been messing around with wordpress for a couple of weeks now, I still have yet to be abkle to upload any themes, or alter any page code as my ISP has put this all beyond my reach. I will persevere – but I really think that the basics of ‘normal file permissions’ as far as ISP’s are concerned and the resultant limitations of creating your own look and feel to sites should be flagged upfront on this website.
