yaphi1

Good news! I’ve found out what the problem is.

It turns out this wasn’t a wordpress issue at all. If you make changes in the editor, and the changes don’t save, that means wordpress is trying to write the changes to your host, but the host has read-only ftp permissions currently set.

Here’s what that means for you.

To fix this, go to your hosting account, find the permissions settings for “Everyone” and then change those settings from read-only. You’ll want to select the “Read” “Write” and “Delete” permissions. That gives you the ability to edit template files through the wordpress editor.

The process of changing the permissions is different for every host, so you might have to call them and ask exactly how to change permissions so they’re not read-only.

I’m having the same problem as kjetterman under the same conditions, and while I don’t need to edit the 2012 and 2011 themes, I do need to edit the Blank Slate theme. The theme itself works perfectly on other websites I administer, but for some reason, I can’t save any changes in the theme editor.

When I click save changes, my changes disappear.