Title: Editing Theme File
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Editing Theme File

 *  [squishyb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/squishyb/)
 * (@squishyb)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-theme-file/)
 * Whenever i try to edit a file in my theme, i get this error:
 * Warning: fopen(c:\Sites\Single18\joshy07\webroot\blog/wp-content/themes/coffee/
   style.css): failed to open stream: Permission denied in c:\Sites\Single18\joshy07\
   webroot\blog\wp-admin\theme-editor.php on line 55
 * Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in c:\Sites\
   Single18\joshy07\webroot\blog\wp-admin\theme-editor.php on line 56
 * Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in c:\Sites\
   Single18\joshy07\webroot\blog\wp-admin\theme-editor.php on line 57
 * Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started
   at c:\Sites\Single18\joshy07\webroot\blog\wp-admin\theme-editor.php:55) in c:\
   Sites\Single18\joshy07\webroot\blog\wp-admin\theme-editor.php on line 58
 * is this something to do with the permisions? If so, what should i fix.
    Thanks
   SquishyB

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 *  [servisis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/servisis/)
 * (@servisis)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-theme-file/#post-253165)
 * Yes, it certainly looks like a permissions error. If you are able to read theme-
   editor.php, around line 55 – 58 you will likely see the name of the file ( or
   dir) that needs exec permissions granted.
 * I just went through a bunch of this, and actually blanket changed permissions
   to 755 until I had what I needed, then had to go back and reset perms on non 
   essential files, which is really bad practice 😉

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