Title: Editing HTML under theme editor
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Editing HTML under theme editor

 *  [buckeyejb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buckeyejb/)
 * (@buckeyejb)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-html-under-theme-editor/)
 * I’m trying to edit some of html code in the theme editor and every time I click
   update file it reverts back to what was originally there. ANy help is greatly
   appreciated. Thanks for any input.

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 *  [churchthemer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/churchthemer/)
 * (@churchthemer)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-html-under-theme-editor/#post-877268)
 * What version of WordPress are you using? What are the permissions on the file
   set to? . . .and are you running wordpress on a linux/apache setup?
 *  Thread Starter [buckeyejb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buckeyejb/)
 * (@buckeyejb)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-html-under-theme-editor/#post-877309)
 * It’s the newest version 2.6.2 and I’m not using linux. It’s my 1st time using
   wordpress so I may not understand some of the jargon.
 * Thanks
 *  [acknowledged74](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acknowledged74/)
 * (@acknowledged74)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-html-under-theme-editor/#post-877316)
 * It maybe the security settings that you host has, i.e ask them if they are using
   mod_security ?
 * Did you install through Fantastico or did you do it yourself.
 * As for the settings all php fields in your ftp should be writable ?
 * Regards
 * Ash
 *  Thread Starter [buckeyejb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buckeyejb/)
 * (@buckeyejb)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-html-under-theme-editor/#post-877511)
 * It’s Godaddy. I’ve been editing through their hosting page. It would be much 
   easier to just do it in WordPress.
 * Thanks again
 *  [Saurus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saurus/)
 * (@saurus)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-html-under-theme-editor/#post-877513)
 * GoDaddy. That explains a lot, right there. Ask to be switched to a Linux server
   package, and use your FTP account/program to set the permissions of files/folder
   to read/write.

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 * [edit html](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/edit-html/)

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 * Last reply from: [Saurus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saurus/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-html-under-theme-editor/#post-877513)
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