I had the same thing happen to me. I’ve been updating a lot and installing a few plugins. My site looks fine and I haven’t run across this problem elsewhere but I cannot change the number of posts on a page.
I had it once before, and it turned out to be a plugin problem. But several people were reporting similar problems at the time, so was relatively easy to isolate which one was causing the trouble. I would suggest deactivating your plugins, and reactivating them one at a time, to see if one of them is causing some sort of conflict. Or try just deactivating any you’ve recently updated first, to see if that resolves the issue.
thanks Paul, I deactivated all of them but that did not resolve the problem. so any suggestions out there would be greatly appreciated.
Hiya,
I’m new here and I’ve got the same issue. I only get the 403 Forbidden message when I try to edit the “Reading” section of the settings. All other setting can be changed fine, just nothing under the Reading tab. Here’s the only thing that I did:
I deleted one page (not a post, but a page) off my blog, but it was a page that I had set to be the one that showed up as the one on my blog’s main page. I deleted this page without first removing it under the “Reading” settings as the one that shows up on my main page. Could this have caused my problem? Since doing this, I have been getting the 403 message everytime I try to edit anything on the “Reading” settings.
Any help would be appreciated.
By the way, I have no plug-ins activated and all CHMOD settings are correct.
Thanks in advance.
Wow, weird how many of us are experiencing this problem. Sure wish we could get it figured out! lol It’s a huge pain.
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I’ve got this problem when I try to edit my style.css in theme-editor. I deactivated all my plugins, still no luck. I changed my stylesheet just last week, haven’t done anything special since then, just happen that one day it didn’t work – same with the Flashuploader, I have to use the Browseruploader these days.
I also have encountered this error. Deactivated all plugins, checked CHMOD, and looked for something odd in the coding… so far… nothing.
kenvallot, you’re my hero! lol THANK YOU! Worked like a charm! 🙂
Alas this didn’t work for me. I have reinstalled, recreated my database, and went to change the number of posts on page one… and no luck 🙁
Still fishing….
Here you go pal:
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/208876
This is not a final fix, but it will help.
Let me know if it works.
Levi.
Alas, this also did not fix my problem. I run 8 different WordPress sites and I have one that is version 2.5.? I have to check on the files, but I believe that I may have a hack issue going on with mine. my .htaccess file looks funny… it’s quite quite large. Still researching so as not to explode the whole thing.
oops, there is also an issue with the db missing two entries in the options table.
and you can also see what´s the deal with the .htaccess, sometimes your server config could block you from executing some files.
Levi.
