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

[Mika A Epstein]

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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