I chmod’s wp-content, now WP is a blank page.

  • Resolved jerryjm

    (@jerryjm)


    17 years, 5 months ago

    My WordPress installation is at https://www.coolcats.com/Nashville-Web-Designers-Blog/

    I tried to upload a picture and saw the permission error message saying that wp-content was not writeable by the server, so I made it 755… then 777. I still could not upload, so I uploaded the pic and inserted it via full path. Then I realized my blog is a blank page.

    I’ve chmod’d wp-content to 644 and everything else and cannot get the site to display.

    Please help, thanks!

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  • Suppose you chmod’d wp-content back to 755?

    Thread Starter jerryjm

    (@jerryjm)

    Yep, thanks; I just did it again to be certain.

    Thread Starter jerryjm

    (@jerryjm)

    After mucking with permissions in wp-content, I now see that when I am in admin and go to the Theme Editor, I see this:

    Warning: array_keys() [function.array-keys]: The first argument should be an array in /xxx/public_html/Nashville-Web-Designers-Blog/wp-includes/theme.php on line 298

    WP thinks there are no themes available.

    At this point, hard to guess what you’ve been up to with permissions. ??

    As a rule of thumb, you want your folders at 755 and the files IN the folders at 644.

    If you try that, do you at least get back to a working state?

    Thread Starter jerryjm

    (@jerryjm)

    Thanks for the reply.
    * wp-content is 755

    * wp-content/themes/default is NOW 755 and that got my WordPress back up, thank you!!!

    * I see you are a moderator, so correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe I need all the files in
    wp-content/themes/default to be 666 so I can edit them in the admin control panel.

    Thanks again! ??

    Well I’m a moderator, but that doesn’t mean I’m smart ?? Just means I can clean up messes!

    With some hosts, you do indeed need to relax permissions on theme files to allow editing from within WP. To be honest, if that’s the case, I’d (personally) suggest using FTP to edit, save and re-upload instead. No sense having a “bad guy” notice your theme files are world-writable!

    Thread Starter jerryjm

    (@jerryjm)

    It’s no problem using FTP to edit, I live in UltraEdit most of the time. Thanks for the tip and have a great day.

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