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

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# Theme Editing Question

 *  [marginwalker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marginwalker/)
 * (@marginwalker)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-editing-question/)
 * In the presentation section in admin, Im trying to edit some theme templates 
   but at the bottom of the page in that section I get this:
 * If this file was writable you could edit it.
 * Is it a chmod problem?

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-editing-question/#post-284331)
 * Yes. You should make them writable (usually that means chmod 666).
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-editing-question/#post-284332)
 * Yup 🙂
 * You need to chmod the theme files to 666 to edit them online. You can use your
   webhost cpanel to do that (if you have one) or your ftp client.
    Does that sound
   okay ?
 *  Thread Starter [marginwalker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marginwalker/)
 * (@marginwalker)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-editing-question/#post-284412)
 * Thanks for the replies, I shall try that!

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-editing-question/#post-284412)
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