Editing Theme

chmod 666 on the file you want to edit, then refresh the browser in the theme-editor page in your dashboard. “update file” button should appear at the bottom of the edit box on page refresh. That should do it.

What permission are you setting the files to?

I’ve tried everything from 666 to 777 on index.php

Up until this point I have made some very minor changes to the style.css through the theme editor. I don’t understand much CSS so I only changed a few things like, header font colors, and background color.

Then today, I decided to make it the way I had always wanted it.

I recently used Firebug to help me figure out some more CSS to use to make some more changes. Firebug was very helpful in helping me understand what changes I should have made. So, I copied and pasted the entire style.css text from the editor into notepad, made the appropriate changes in notepad then copied the whole thing, changes and all, and paste replaced all the css text in my editor. Then clicked update file, and then visited the site to see the changes.

No changes.

Any edits I do seem to be ignored after I click “update file.” The changes still show in the css file in the editor itself, but they don’t appear on the website. It remains the way I had it, despite the fact that the code in the style.css is changed the way I want it.

The only changes I tried to make are in the code below, taken directly from the editor, with the changes I tried to make in all caps.

body {
background-color: gray; CHANGE TO BLACK
margin: 0;
color: #000; CHANGE TO WHITE
font-size: 12px;
font-family: ‘Arial’, sans-serif;
text-shadow: #000 0 0 0; /* Lighten Safari’s heavy fonts */
}

#header {
text-align: center;
}

.description {
color: purple; MAKE IT PURPLE
padding: 0 0 10px 0;
font-size: 14px;
font-style: italic;
letter-spacing: 2px;
}

.nav a, .pagenav a, .nav-blog a {
display: block;
float: left;
color: #000; MAKE IT PURPLE
}

.nav a:hover, .pagenav a:hover, .nav-blog a:hover {
color: #800; MAKE IT GREEN
}

So none of my changes work after trying to make those changes. What should I do?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

It’s time to show your url maybe?
And, especially Firefox, is heavy on looking in its cache., so you don’t see what you have. Clean history and look again.

Next: 0666 does it for me. If you do’t see a “Save” button in Admin/Themes/ etc under the style.css that yo are trying to edit, than copiyng from Notepad won’t work either.

I am using WIN-SCP for ftp program and it has an easy editor for css and php files in it. Just double click the file you want to edit.
It also easily duplicates files before you start editing to make a safe backup ??

If changes to the header does not work because there is nothing to click on, try this instead.
Log in to you server with a good FTP program and look for header-php in the themes folder. Open it via Edit and make all changes there and then save it.
Double check then on the site and you’ll find the changes made.