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

[Chris Cox]

Ok, cheers for that.

*Chris Cox*

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On 07/06/2012 12:19, Mika A Epstein wrote:
> Generally we don't worry about that. Two years ago, that curiously was the best advice. Amazing how fast things change! :D
>
> If you wanted, you can make a new post 'How to disable theme editing....' and link back to the old one. That tends to make it more noticed on a Google search.
>
> On Jun 7, 2012, at 5:47 AM, Chris Cox<chris at renaissance-design.net>  wrote:
>
>> 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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>> *Chris Cox*
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