More Issues with Dreamhost’s “Easy Mode” WordPress
Posted by znbailey on July 27th, 2008 filed in Blog SetupSo, getting back to setting up and maintaining the blog. After poking around some more, I’ve noticed even more tweaks that I want to make. First, I want to change the favicon for my site. Generally this is declared in the <head> of the site in the format:
<link rel=”icon” type=”image/png” href=”/favicon.png”/>
Or something similar. However, when I go to manage the theme for this blog, I get the message that I can’t edit any of the theme’s files because they do not have the proper permissions (write permission). This seems to be a very disappointing artifact of the Dreamhost “Easy Mode” WordPress setup. I would have thought at the very least they would allow me to modify these files via the Admin Interface, even if I couldn’t access them directly via SSH.
In a similar vein, I also want to tweak the meta keywords for my blog, which seem to be hardcoded by the theme (which doesn’t make much sense to me either, why doesn’t WordPress include this as a theming variable?). Once again, the theme files don’t have the correct permissions set to change this.
Finally, I want to include a Google Analytics snippet somewhere in the page - it appears there is a nice plugin for doing this, but once again I can’t even drop files into any of the WordPress directories because of using DreamHost’s “Easy Mode” setup. Even if I didn’t want to use a plugin and simply edit the theme’s footer, for example, I couldn’t do that either because of the permissions issue mentioned earlier.
So now I am stuck. I think it’s time to migrate to an “Advanced” installation of WordPress, or ping DreamHost’s tech support to see what they think about this situation.
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