[wp-forums] Stumbled across an old, closed thread with bad advice

[Chris Cox]

I found this thread, which was closed without a definitive answer: 
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-theme-editing-in-admin-area

Two answers given, one of which was hacking core, the other breaking WP 
functionality by setting file permissions. The post comes second in the 
SERPS when I Googled the issue, so it's fairly high-profile.

As far as I've been able to dig up, setting:

define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT',true);

in wp-config.php would seem to be the best-practice solution, but with 
the thread closed there's no way for me to add it.


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