Kevin S Brown » file permission http://kevinsbrown.com My Personal Blog - Built with WordPress - Mainly about WordPress Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:36:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Solving The Wordpress ‘you need to make this file writable’ Error Message http://kevinsbrown.com/solving-the-wordpress-you-need-to-make-this-file-writable-error-message.html http://kevinsbrown.com/solving-the-wordpress-you-need-to-make-this-file-writable-error-message.html#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:08:56 +0000 admin http://kevinsbrown.com/?p=38 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.

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