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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [If this file were writable you could edit it](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/if-this-file-were-writable-you-could-edit-it-1/)
 *  [timjohns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timjohns/)
 * (@timjohns)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/if-this-file-were-writable-you-could-edit-it-1/#post-405713)
 * I’m a newbie’ish sorta user to all this but I just thought I’d post here how 
   I solved this “_If this file were writable you could edit it_” problem.
 * They key for me was reading the extra info from Yosemite (above).
 * Changing the permissions for the THEMES folders to 777 or 666 or 755 appeared
   to do nothing.
    Even setting the permissions for the individual theme folders
   did nothing. Then I read that changing this only effects NEW files… Ah Ha !!!
 * So in Filezilla, I went into the folder for the theme I was using at my site 
   [http://timdotnet.net/wiggumdaily/](http://timdotnet.net/wiggumdaily/) (Earthy)
   and selected all the individual files in there and changed the CHMOD to 666 for
   all those existing files and BINGO-BANGO, I can now edit the theme from within
   WP 🙂
 * I’ll probably stick to doing it using Filezilla, but it’s handy to at least be
   ABLE to quickly make changes from the WP interface.

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