WordPress MU theme-editor

Hi all, I recently installed WordPress MU 2.8.4a to one of the social networks I maintain, And wanted to do some changes in theme source code, so I started looking for theme editor button in admin area, under appearance. But the button wasn’t there. So I tried to use the direct link to the theme-editor.php in order to access the theme editor function, instead I received an error “page disabled by administrator.” I tried to search online and seems like there are not that many good suggestions. I looked at the code and if anyone would need to have The built-in Theme Editor, they you will need to edit one (1) file only and you won’t need to upload or change anything else.

The file is “mu.php” located under “/wp-admin/includes” folder.

to edit from WordPress MU 2.8.1:

Do the following changes

• Search and locate

{code type=codetype}

unset( $submenu['themes.php'][10] ); // always remove the themes editor{/code}

Then change to{code type=codetype}
//unset( $submenu['themes.php'][10] ); // always remove the themes editor{/code}

• Then locate

{code type=codetype}

if ( strpos( $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], $page ) ) {{/code}

Change to

{code type=codetype}

if ( strpos( $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], $page ) && !is_site_admin() ) {

{/code}

Refresh you admin page, and now you will find the editor button on Appearance admin menu.

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