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Wordpress one click installation...files edited using ftp not taikng effect

Posted on June 16, 2014

I have installed wordpress one click install on ubuntu 14.04, The installation was fine, wordpress is now live. i can login to admin and do all stuffs. i am using some themes for my site. i want to make it look in my way… so i was editing the core theme files in my computer using ftp client filezilla and after editing and uploading it in to the themes directory in var/www/wp-content/themes/mythemes

when i do refresh the site… nothing has changed or updated… whats wrong here?



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Same problem!

Is that theme selected in Wordpress?

yes that theme is activated in wp dashboard…do i need to run any commands after updating codes in var/www/wordpress files.

i am new to wordpress in vps… i used many shared hosting before it was very easy.

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