Title: Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]

 *  [Raradra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raradra/)
 * (@raradra)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-mkdir-functionmkdir-3/)
 * I’m using this plugin on two different sites. The one site is running it fine,
   the other site is giving me this error. I have a multi-author site so I need 
   to not have warnings on the dashboard 🙂 What should I do? I tried deactivating
   and reactivating and also tried uninstalling and reinstalling.
 * Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in wp-content/plugins/wp-
   special-textboxes/stb-admin-class.php on line 84
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-special-textboxes/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-special-textboxes/)

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 *  [thermann78](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thermann78/)
 * (@thermann78)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-mkdir-functionmkdir-3/#post-4670019)
 * Same problem here. After updating the plugin I also get just an error warnung
   and can’t login anymore – as I need STB to guide my visitors to my topic pages
   I cannot just deactivate it.
    I already tried chmod to 755/777 as well as chown
   to www-data what exactly didn’t change anything.
 * Any advices? Thanks in advance!
 *  [thermann78](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thermann78/)
 * (@thermann78)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-mkdir-functionmkdir-3/#post-4670025)
 * Meanwhile I gave up and wait for the developers fixing that problem.
    Just a 
   short hack to regain control over your dashboard:
 * 1. Goto FTP and open the file stb-admin-class.php in dir /wp-content/plugins/
   wp-special-textboxes/ with an code editor.
    2. Search for this line (should be
   in line 80): `private function checkThemesFolder($dir) {` Now after `global $
   wp_filesystem;` insert a new line containing `/*`; 3. Search for this line (should
   now be on line 98): `return $out;` After this line add a new line containing `*/`.
   4. Save stb-admin-class.php. 5. Reload.
 * What have we done? We just commented out the function causing problems. For the
   moment we don’t need this function, but it may mean that you can’t add new styles
   and such atm. It isn’t the bugfix but a short hack for the moment until developers
   pop up and solve the real problem.
 *  Thread Starter [Raradra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raradra/)
 * (@raradra)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-mkdir-functionmkdir-3/#post-4670047)
 * Thanks for the workaround. I had actually reverted to the previous version while
   I wait for an answer but I may try this to check out the new features. 🙂

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-mkdir-functionmkdir-3/#post-4670047)
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