{"id":278,"date":"2019-08-06T12:55:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T10:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/how-to-enable-the-wordpress-theme-and-plugin-editor\/"},"modified":"2022-01-21T16:04:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T15:04:05","slug":"how-to-enable-the-wordpress-theme-and-plugin-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/how-to-enable-the-wordpress-theme-and-plugin-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Enable The WordPress Theme And Plugin Editor?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some web hosting disable the WordPress theme and plugin editor for security reasons. If you want to activate that functionality, you need to make some minor changes to your <code>wp-config.php<\/code> file:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Log in to your webspace via SFTP and go to your WordPress website<\/li><li>Open the folder where your WordPress installation resides<\/li><li>Open the file wp-config.php on your computer with a text editor<\/li><li>Search for this entry: <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true);<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"5\"><li>Change &#8216;true&#8217; to &#8216;false&#8217;:<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', false);<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"6\"><li>Save the file and upload it again <\/li><li>The Theme Editor is now available under <strong>Appearance &gt; Theme Editor<\/strong>. And the Plugin Editor under <strong>Plugins &gt; Plugin Editor<\/strong>. <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some web hosting disable the WordPress theme and plugin editor for security reasons. If you want to activate that functionality, you need to make some minor changes to your wp-config.php file: Log in to your webspace via SFTP and go to your WordPress website Open the folder where your WordPress installation resides Open the file [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,45],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doc","category-howto","tag-howto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}