Localhost Installation – Editing Theme Files

  • bob211

    (@bob211)


    14 years, 5 months ago

    When I edit the header.php file through the WordPress Site Admin dashboard, I don’t see the changes in the actual physical files in the wordpress/wp-content/themes/twenty directory.

    Where are those changes being saved?

    Furthermore, if I copy my own JPEG files to twentyten/images,
    they are not accessible via the browser. I need to be able to add these images to the header.php file.

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  • Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    I don’t see the changes in the actual physical files in the wordpress/wp-content/themes/twenty directory.

    The files must be writable for the wordpress editor to save the changes.
    Editing Files

    I copy my own JPEG files to twentyten/images,
    they are not accessible via the browser

    Do you mean accessible by your web browser? Or by the wordpress built in theme editor? If it’s the theme editor, I don’t think the editor is capable of opening/exploring directories. You may only be able to edit files located in a theme or plugin root directory. If it’s your web browser, you may have a file ownership or permissions issue.

    Thread Starter bob211

    (@bob211)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    The files are writable. The wordpress directory itself has permissions drwxr-xr-x

    I even changed the file permission for header.php to -rw-rw-rw-

    The image file that I copied is not showing up at URL http://localhost/wordpress/wp-content/themes/twentyten/images/logo.png

    Interestingly, the image DOES appear in my browser at http://username-imac.home/~username/wordpress/wp-content/themes/twentyten/images/logo.png

    ( This may relate to another post I entered regarding the website URL for web sharing on Mac OSX)

    The fact is that the theme editor is showing the changes that I made, but it is not actually writing those changes to the file at wp-content/themes/twentyten/header.php

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    This is directly related to http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/localhost-vs-website-url
    Please do not post multiple topics on the same subject.

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