Wordpress template customisation

[editor]

This is doing my head in!

I need to add one meta tag into the index.php page so that Google will verify it. Wordpress says I need to make the file writable before I can do that, but the FTP permissions (644) seem to say that I can already write to the file. I tried changing it to 744 and still nothing happened.

What do I need to do?

 

[editor]

In the meantime, I've got the site Google verified by uploading a HTML page as per their instructions.

 

[grit]

This is doing my head in!

I need to add one meta tag into the index.php page so that Google will verify it. Wordpress says I need to make the file writable before I can do that, but the FTP permissions (644) seem to say that I can already write to the file. I tried changing it to 744 and still nothing happened.

What do I need to do?

Try 764 which is owner do whatever it wants, group read and write and other just read.

edited to add: or actually 664 as I dont think execution is ever going to be required by owner. Either or should fix it.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Right. If you change the page naming structure, you have to do something to your ht.access file otherwise you're looking at a site fill of 'page not found' errors.

is it mod rewrite?

i've done this for my site but i use my own php so can't really help

 

[grit]

he needs to post the .htaccess for us to have a gander.

 

[Lazy Llama]

.htaccess is all sorted (Apache config wasn't allowing overrides)
Fixed the file permissions too, as suggested the file needed to be group writable so that the web server could write to the file.

 

[editor]

Here's a really handy article about Wordpress for beginners:
http://lifehacker.com/5365600/the-beginners-guide-to-tricking-out-your-wordpress-blog