Theme Editor won’t work

Are you 100% sure that the permissions are set correctly?
If not, try to chmod everything to 777 (more precisely 0777).

For the character problem WITHIN a HTML-File I strongly recommend you to use HTML-Entities instead of plain text.

So for example ? = æ
and so on…

Here’s a full Entity listing

Dusty ??

Thank you for the Entity tips, I didn’t know about that:-)

Yes, I’m sure that the permissions are set correctly, and to make the confusion complete:

I just discovered that I can use the Theme Editor to edit several of the theme-files. I haven’t tried all of them, but it seems like it’s only the sidebar.php bit that won’t work in the editor. And the permissions ARE 777. I don’t understand this at all, thank god for computers or else I wouldn’t know what to do with my time!

Oh well…stop thinking about it and use an editor+ftp ??
I know….lame joke…:p

Anyways…I think you safe yourself a lot of grief.
To avoid the questionmark problem, use entities.
That should solve most of your problems. ??

Dusty ??

Yeah, I guess I will, but you now how it is when you first have started to itch…it’s hard to keep from scratching.

Thanks anyway:-)

I can use Notepad and FTP to do the job. Yes, I know that, and that’s the way I do it. The only problem is that when uploading through ftp the norwegian charachters ?-?-? gets changed to questionmarks.

Actually that happens NOT because of FTP but because either your Notepad doesn’t have utf-8 support (older editions) or you just don’t use it! When saving the file at the bottom of the dialog window you have the option to chose the encoding…

Yeah, when I switched to textpad instead of notepad it worked like a dream. Hey,I’m learning something new everyday with my new wordpressinstall:-)

And by the way, if anybody is interested I discovered that it must have been something in the code in the sidebar.php file that stopped me from using the theme editor. When I removed the code below I suddenly was allowed to use the editor.

<h2>Ord for dagen</h2>
<ul class=”files”>
<script language=”JavaScript”>

// ==============================================
// Copyright 2004 by CodeLifter.com
// Free for all; but please leave in this header.
// ==============================================

var Quotation=new Array(1) // do not change this!

// Set up the quotations to be shown, below.
// To add more quotations, continue with the
// pattern, adding to the array. Remember
// to increment the Quotation[x] index!

Quotation[0] = “I knew him when he was nothing and he hasn’t changed a bit (Tom Waits).”;
Quotation[1] = “I’m so goddamn horny the crack of dawn better watch itself around me (Tom Waits).”;
Quotation[2] = “It was a hubba, hubba, ding dang, baby you are just everythang. A week later it’s a hubba, hubba, ding dong, baby sure didn’t last too long (Tom Waits).”;
Quotation[3] = “If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too (Tom Waits).”;

…and a whole lot of quotes before the code ends with this bit:

// ======================================
// Do not change anything below this line
// ======================================
var Q = Quotation.length;
var whichQuotation=Math.round(Math.random()*(Q-1));
function showQuotation(){document.write(Quotation[whichQuotation]);}
showQuotation();
</script>

Something to do with the javascript maybe?