Title: Plugin Editor fails to save changes
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugin Editor fails to save changes

 *  [limekiller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/limekiller/)
 * (@limekiller)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-editor-fails-to-save-changes/)
 * I’m actually using version 2.8.5, but that’s not yet an option in the version
   pulldown as I create this post.
 * When I use the built-in plugin editor to make changes to a plugin, I click the
   button to “Update File” and with some files I get a “page not found” error and
   my changes don’t get saved. The URL showing when this happens is `http://myurl/
   wp-admin/plugin-editor.php`. When it works, its more like `http://myurl/wp-admin/
   plugin-editor.php?file=akismet/readme.txt&plugin=akismet/akismet.php`. So for
   some reason those extra parameters aren’t getting appended to the URL in some
   cases
 * I did a test on a few files by just trying to add some text to a comment line
   and don’t see any pattern to why some files are editable and others aren’t. All
   files have the same ownership and permissions.
 * Akismet plugin:
    readme.txt – editable askismet.php – not editable
 * Lightbox2:
    readme.txt – editable lightbox2.php – not editable options.php – 
   editable lighbox.js – not editable
 * Anyone know why that might be happening?

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 *  [shane-g](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g/)
 * (@shane-g)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-editor-fails-to-save-changes/#post-1259614)
 * Hi,
 * Assign 766 recursive permissions to wp-content directory from SSH. If you do 
   not have an access of SSH then contact your hosting service provider to grant
   the permissions.
 * Thanks,
 * Shane G.
 *  Thread Starter [limekiller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/limekiller/)
 * (@limekiller)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-editor-fails-to-save-changes/#post-1259809)
 * Good suggestion, but that didn’t fix it. The files look to be editable. By which
   I mean the “update file” button is visible. All files have 644 permissions, folders
   have 755. I changed akismet.php to 766, edited a comment, clicked “update file”,
   and it got a 404 page not found error. I go back to my plugin editor and see 
   that my change wasn’t made. I don’t have SSH capability, so I only tried that
   single file. Do I need to change the folder to something else? I should reiterate
   that all those files in my original post have the same permissions, yet some 
   throw the error and some don’t.

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 * Last reply from: [limekiller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/limekiller/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-editor-fails-to-save-changes/#post-1259809)
 * Status: not resolved

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