Solving The Wordpress ‘you need to make this file writable’ Error Message

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It depends on your web hosting service, but sometimes when I try to edit the theme on a new Wordpress self-hosted blog, I get this error message..

‘You need to make this file writable before you can save your changes’

Here’s a short video on how to solve this problem, by setting the theme file permissions so editing is allowed.

 

PS..  It’s also the first time I have used the Viddler video hosting service, so I am trying that out, too.

2 Responses to “ Solving The Wordpress ‘you need to make this file writable’ Error Message”

  1. Lee McIntyre Says:
    November 20th, 2008 at 11:42 pm

    Hi Kevin

    Great video from one of my favourite marketers :)

    Being a non techy I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve hit this error and been totally perplexed about what to do next.

    Thanks for the great video!

    Lee McIntyre

  2. admin Says:
    November 21st, 2008 at 12:43 am

    Hi Lee,

    It’s always good to help a favourite student :)

    All the best

    Kevin

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