New wp-content folder made by WP, unable to edit theme

  • Resolved ubergraham

    (@ubergraham)


    13 years, 7 months ago

    Not sure if this happened with 3.2 or 3.2.1, but:

    Was trying this am to make some small edits to my custom theme. Turned off all caching software, and nothing was changing. I would update the file (example, header.php), it would save, but no changes would be live on my site. The only file that WOULD display the changes I made was my stylesheet.

    Started digging around in my server, and found that a wp-content directory had been created by WordPress. (My wordpress install is at domain.com/wordpress/, and is properly configured this way in settings, and has not been changed in years.)

    The content inside this directory cannot be renamed/deleted, and my host support is even having trouble deleting this directory.

    I believe there’s some WordPress problem using/creating this directory or with how the theme_directory code is being used, since I’m able to make edits to my styles.css file, but not to the theme template files. Please help!

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  • Thread Starter ubergraham

    (@ubergraham)

    I should also note: the abberant/new wp-content folder is an exact replica of my domain.com/wordpress/wp-content folder, including all the plugins and themes that are there. It reads all these files being created on 6/30/11, which is, I believe, when I upgraded to 3.2.

    Thread Starter ubergraham

    (@ubergraham)

    Had my host force-delete the directory. Also noted that WordPress installed aberrant wp-admin and wp-include directories, AND deleted/overwrote my index.php file, which I had to re-edit back. Issue now resolved.

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