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cannot edit header.php


  • kiannachauntis
    Member

    @kiannarexia

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Hi there, I’m doing a site for a client through BuddyPress. I decided to go the route of creating a child theme. I have created the theme successfully and only did a little bit of ediitng to the style.css file. Everything thus far was working fine and I am now ready to begin editing the header.php file. However when I copied the header.php file over to my new theme’s folder and attempted to edit it in the appearance editor I received this message-

    “Sorry, that file cannot be edited.”

    My first thought was to CHMod the permissions of the file to 777- this did nothing however and I still got the same error message. Is there something I’m missing here? Please help! My client is on my ass lol!

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  • kiannachauntis
    Member

    @kiannarexia

    12 years, 11 months ago

    I’m wondering if it would just be easier to edit the header.php file from my computer rather than the Buddypress dashboard and reupload every time I make a change?


    @mercime
    Participant

    @mercime

    12 years, 11 months ago

    == when I copied the header.php file over to my new theme’s folder and attempted to edit it in the appearance editor I received this message- “Sorry, that file cannot be edited.” ==
    It’s a known issue – https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16744

    == I’m wondering if it would just be easier to edit the header.php file from my computer rather than the Buddypress dashboard and reupload every time I make a change? ==
    That’s the way to do it.


    kiannachauntis
    Member

    @kiannarexia

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks! I’m adapting as we speak lol

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