Comments on: Make a Website, Changing the Look and Layout with a WordPress Theme

By: Register Domain Name | Hosting Service | Bluehost | ComputerChimp.com | Joe Kraynak

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:06:50 +0000

[...] Next time, I’ll discuss themes – the code that works behind the scenes to control the look and layout of your blog. You can completely revamp the appearance of your blog by changing themes – it’s almost as easy as changing your clothes! See “Make a Website, Changing the Look and Layout with a WordPress Theme.” [...]

By: paul

paul — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:03:03 +0000

This was awesome. Thank you for the great instructions!

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:21:06 +0000

Hi, Amy–

You are correct. Thanks. For some reason I can’t recall right now, I had to set the permissions to 777.

Joe

By: amy

amy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:02:42 +0000

hi.

THE THESIS PEOPLE SAY TO SET YOUR CACHE AT 775 NOT 777…

By: bill k

bill k — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:35:18 +0000

Great info presented in a clear and concise way. Best tutorial I’ve read yet. Thanks.

By: File Search Engine

File Search Engine — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:33:47 +0000

very detailed step-by-step instruction to install the theme … how useful this post is to me

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:06:02 +0000

Hi, Smiles–

No, that’s Girlie’s hosting service.

LATER: On Bluehost, setting file permissions for layout.css to 644 seems to work fine.

By: smiles

smiles — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:37:02 +0000

Thanks for the reply. And are you saying that with Bluehost I don’t have to switch the layout.css to 666, that I can keep it 644?

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:04:34 +0000

From Girlie (one of the Administrators on the DIY Forums):

In order for “anyone” to write to that file, they’d have to have already gained access to the files on your server through some other security loophole – which would be the more important concern if it ever happened to me.

In other words, I’m “anyone”, but I still can’t do anything with that file unless I’ve managed to hack into your server in some way which gives me the ability to write to it. Permissions alone grant me no extra power without some form of access to the file itself.

(And FWIW, I don’t have to set permissions on my layout.css to 666; they work just fine at 644, presumably due to extra security features such as suExec or suPHP my host has in place, which allows scripts to work with stricter permissions and less risk.)

By: smiles

smiles — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:42:05 +0000

I called Bluehost for help. Bluehost is telling me not to change the permission of the layout.css because then anyone in the world can have access to change it. What do I do? I\’m confused.