The EDIT link in my WordPress Dashboard is missing

[krystyn]

^^ Exactly @CeeKing! We can log into ftp to FIX a mistake, but shouldn't have to to make basic changes like color and font!

[nickthegeek]

I would recommend contacting the Synthesis staff about your concerns. These are community forums for StudioPress users. The vast majority are not Synthesis users and your concerns cannot be addressed by the users here effectively.

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Update by GaryJ (as I can't re-open the thread):

Nick,
While the origin of the problem does indeed lie with the Synthesis set up, this is a community for Genesis users - we help with plugin-related issues with Genesis, so we can help with hosting issues too, especially for something like this.

Everyone else,
The WP editor is useful for updating CSS files, but it's poor for editing PHP files - one forgotten semi-colon, or some other syntax error, and the site will throw a white screen, then the only way to fix it is via FTP.
Filezilla and most decent hosting support SFTP, which is a secure version of FTP. Unless your whole site runs on SSL (starts with https://), then any changes you send via the WP editor could be sniffed out anyway. SFTP eliminates that risk, as well as putting general access to site files behind the extra username and password associated with FTP (and can be easily limited with certain IP addresses etc.), rather than just your WP password.
Learning how to use FTP is by far the better choice here.

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