zalm

i’ve reset the permissions, and i can now mess around with the theme editor. so that helps.

knowing to stay away from dreamweaver is definitely helpful. i’m on a mac, so i’m not sure that notepad++ will work for me. will bbedit work?

but i’m actually wondering if my ftp settings are messing with the line-breaks or something. i downloaded a copy of the default theme, changed the theme folder name on the server to “modified”, changed the name in the stylesheet of the version on the server with theme editor to “wordpress default modified” and then reuploaded the unmodified default theme. after all that, the “wordpress default modified” showed up just fine, but the unmodified “wordpress default” displayed the entire stylesheet as the name/description, etc. and when i opened it up in the theme editor, the line-breaks were all messed up.

i found a workaround. i modified the default theme name as described above. then i redownloaded the wordpress install package and uploaded a clean copy of the default theme. that seems to work just fine. it doesn’t explain what was going wrong, but at least now i have something that i can mess around with.

thanks for the help. after reading this latest post, if you have any additional tips they’d be most welcome.