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Wordpress - being asked for location to save file when updating plugin?
I have just installed wordpress on my server thanks to the 'Famous 5 minute installation' - http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress.
I am a complete newbie to this stuff, but have managed to install a few plugins and a new theme. My problem is with the Easy AdSenser plugin (and others) - when I make the changes I need to make and click on the 'Save Changes' button, it pops up a window asking where I would like to save the .php file. I simply want to update it and save it online to my server.
Have I got a setting wrong somewhere ? Or am I doing something else wrong ? I am simply trying to save the changes to the online file, but it seems to wantme to save it locally.
Thanks in advance.
Can anyone help me with this ? It is seriously driving me mad and I'm sure that it is something fairly simple. I'm hoping that someone knowledgeable might be able to point me in the right direction.
Thanks !
Let me think long and hard about this baby
Wordpress tutorial--installing on a local server