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not a support questionHi,
I am in the Theme Editor and I want to make changes to my header image. I am following instructions from http://www.revolutiontheme.com/using-a-full-width-header-image.htm. When I go to make changes to the code, at the bottom of the window is says "If this file were writable you could edit it."
How do I make it "writable" or what I am doing wrong?
Thanks.
I am not able to edit any of the pre-loaded themes either.
For security reasons, we do not recommend setting permissions on files so that they can be edited through the control panel.
Edit your files locally on your computer, then upload them to the server via ftp .
Also, our system maintains the pre-installed themes, so any changes you make to them would be overwritten anyway.
If you want to customize a pre-installed theme, download the directory to your local computer through ftp . Make your changes locally, then upload the entire directory -with a new name- to the themes folder.
So if you want to customize the default theme, download it to your local machine and rename the directory from default to my-default for example. Then make your custom changes, and upload the my-default directory to your themes directory.
I am a little frustrated. I do not have a lot of computer knowledge and I don't even know what ftp is or how to find it, much less download a directory to it. It is also not clear to me how I would even upload a folder into my blog - where is this feature located?
I am also a little confused as to why content is not editable - apparently in other WordPress formats one is able to change their "permissions" in order to edit content in their header....without downloading, changing names, and then uploading new themes. For a "newbie" in code, this is so over my head as to be unreachable.
In Blogharbor there was a feature under security (in the general category) which allowed the user to add additional header information. Why can't that be available on Press Harbor? I have one small piece of code I need to add in order to make a feature on my blog functional...this just seems so unwieldy.
If you could direct me to clear, simple, step by step directions which explain ftp and how to do everything you wrote above, it would be helpful. Thanks.
It is also not clear to me how I would even upload a folder into my blog - where is this feature located?
Please see this thread: http://support.pressharbor.com/discuss/topic/13?replies=1 to learn about how to ftp files and folders. You can find all of our FTP-related support docs at http://support.pressharbor.com/?s=ftp and forum posts at http://support.pressharbor.com/discuss/tags/ftp .
I am also a little confused as to why content is not editable - apparently in other WordPress formats one is able to change their "permissions" in order to edit content in their header
Yes, and in many others it is not possible to edit files via the control panel. The technical answer is "it depends on whether Apache runs as the user who owns the files or if it runs as a different user such as apache." Managing your Wordpress works differently from server to server, web servers vary widely, and what is safe or workable on one server is not safe or workable on another.
In Blogharbor there was a feature under security (in the general category) which allowed the user to add additional header information. Why can't that be available on Press Harbor?
Because it does not exist in Wordpress. We did not write Wordpress, we can only install it for you and manage its upgrades. Please take it up with their developers if you wish to see a feature added to it.
If you could direct me to clear, simple, step by step directions which explain ftp and how to do everything you wrote above, it would be helpful.
We have a number of places for you to learn about http://FTP. See our first reply above.
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