Editing the theme

[ekimpa]

I posed this question to Jeffro in twitter, he asked to to through it on the forums here, so I am now a user of these forums. Pretty awesome place! Thanks for the add!
Ok I am wondering how to change the codex in my template, since I am not very good at .php yet I am forced to use someone else's template, which I am greatful for! But want to use some different features. I do understand some stuff, but I am getting bogged down on the codex, heres the statment that I have at the bottom of the editing page that I have "You need to make this file writable before you can save your changes. See the Codex for more information." I tried to do what they suggest but I put myself so far out, I had to send to my host and have them change so I wasn't forbiden anymore. LOL only way to learn Baptism by fire!!
Thanks Jeffro!

[Len]

General rule of thumb...

files = 644
folders = 755

By the way, I never edit my files online. I make my edits offline then upload via SFTP.

Welcome to the forum!

[Jeffro]

Len pretty much answered your question. Sounds like you were having issues uploading your changed files but the directories didn't have the correct permissions for the overwrite to take place. That is what the error messages "make sure you make this file writable" means.

You don't need to edit anything on the Codex which is funny because now I know why you asked me that question. Instead, that error is simply pointing you to the Codex to figure out information on how to ensure your files have the right permissions so they are writeable.

[Leland]

Are you talking about editing your theme files in your WordPress admin theme editor? This isn't the "codex" fyi.

Just wondering, which web host do you use? In my experience some hosts have security settings that prevent you from doing edits to your themes/plugins within your admin panel without editing your permissions manually.

I wrote about this before here: http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/11/h...emes-writable/

Although I would recommend reverting your permissions back to their original state after you're done editing whatever files you wanted to edit.

[Jeffro]

hmm, hope we solved your problem, come back and let us know :)