jumat

@prashantvatsh the folder with the active theme and all of it’s content was locked. However, one level up, it was possible to rename the folder containing all the themes. It worked making a duplicate of that folder and modifying the content of the functions.php file.
Thanks for all the your previous answers!

You are not able to change the permissions of the files and folders so that it allows you to edit?

Not through the standard way of changing permissions on mac. I try to set it to write and read but automatically reverts to “read only for all users” and it says that I don’t have the rights to change this setting.
I also tried from terminal with sudo chflags -R nouchg but no luck.

I found blogs explaining how to do this from wp-admin… but I don’t have access to that at the moment.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by jumat.

I think this means you have checked in your laptop folder. If yes, then you might be using any localhost server xampp/mamp etc.

I checked and this was these were docs remaining from previous attempt of installation of xampp. However it wasn’t in use now and WordPress wasn’t installed within xampp.

Uninstalling the WordPress will have no effect on the theme. So if you have access to your wp-admin, I will suggest activating another theme and then try editing your previous theme from Appearance -> Theme Editor.

The problem is that I don’t have access to wp-admin. If I had that I could go in wp file manager and just edit the function.php doc of the theme back to how it was before. When I try to launch wp now it just sends me back to the fatal error message and seems like I can’t do anything from there.

Please have a backup of your site before changing

I have a recent backup done with updraft on drive. I could indeed restore this one if I could access wp-admim or somehow “rest” WordPress.

marking as solved

Thank you Nickolas,
when you say to put it right below the shortcode do you mean just within the wordpress block? (I imagine is a beginner question, I tried to research this but couldn’t find a solution)

If I paste it like in the box below, on the website it just shows the unchanged fields, and then the text code just under the fields:

[wordpress_file_upload userdata="true" userdatalabel="your name|t:text|s:top|r:1|a:1|p:none|d:/your message|t:multitext|s:top|r:1|p:none"] 

<script type="text/javascript">
if(window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener("load", wfu_limit_field_length, false); } else if(window.attachEvent) { window.attachEvent("onload", wfu_limit_field_length); } else { window["onload"] = wfu_limit_field_length; }
function wfu_limit_field_length() {
    var sid = 1;
    var fid = 1;
	var len = 15;
    var obj = GlobalData.WFU[sid].userdata;
    var props = obj.props[fid - 1];
    var field = document.getElementById("userdata_" + sid + "_field_" + props.key);
    var listeners = getEventListeners(field)["DOMAttrModified"];
    if (listeners) for (var i = 0; i < listeners.length; i++) field.removeEventListener("DOMAttrModified", listeners[i].listener);
    var listeners = getEventListeners(field)["textInput"];
    if (listeners) for (var i = 0; i < listeners.length; i++) field.removeEventListener("textInput", listeners[i].listener);
    var listeners = getEventListeners(field)["input"];
    if (listeners) for (var i = 0; i < listeners.length; i++) field.removeEventListener("input", listeners[i].listener);
    var listeners = getEventListeners(field)["change"];
    if (listeners) for (var i = 0; i < listeners.length; i++) field.removeEventListener("change", listeners[i].listener);
    var listeners = getEventListeners(field)["keypress"];
    if (listeners) for (var i = 0; i < listeners.length; i++) field.removeEventListener("keypress", listeners[i].listener);
    var listeners = getEventListeners(field)["paste"];
    if (listeners) for (var i = 0; i < listeners.length; i++) field.removeEventListener("paste", listeners[i].listener);
    var listeners = getEventListeners(field)["focus"];
    if (listeners) for (var i = 0; i < listeners.length; i++) field.removeEventListener("focus", listeners[i].listener);
    var listeners = getEventListeners(field)["propertychange"];
    if (listeners) for (var i = 0; i < listeners.length; i++) removeEventListener("propertychange", listeners[i]);
    obj.attachHandlers(props, function(e) { if (e.target.value.length <= len) props.store(); else e.target.value = props.getstored(); });
}
</script>

I have also tried to edit it in the file upload control panel but can’t save and update after the change.

Could you suggest how to proceed?

Thanks!
Matteo

• This reply was modified 5 years, 12 months ago by jumat.