Title: Permissions problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Permissions problems

 *  [blake](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blake/)
 * (@blake)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permissions-problems/)
 * When trying to use the theme editor, it says
 * If this file was writable you could edit it.
 * at the bottom of the screen.
 * So I use my ftp client to go and change the permissions of the theme directory
   to 666, as suggested in another post here. As soon as I do that, I start having
   all kinds of major permissions problems and WP starts acting wacky, the site 
   cannot be updated, new posts do not show up etc.
 * What’s going on here?
 * TIA!

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 *  Thread Starter [blake](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blake/)
 * (@blake)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permissions-problems/#post-165338)
 * Oh, btw… I’m entirely ignorant of unix, working under OSX 10.3.8 and using Fetch
   for ftp.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permissions-problems/#post-165341)
 * Chmod the file, not the directory! The file you want to edit.

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