I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to upload photos to the new WordPress 2.5 blog.

So, in case I can shorten the learning curve for anyone else, here is my research and what worked.

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First, in case you just need to know exactly how to insert a photo into a blog posting:

VIDEO TUTORIAL:

http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-rc2/

SCREENSHOT TUTORIAL:

http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/howto-upload-photos-to-wordpress-25/

- this tutorial contains additional instructions for how to set it up properly to upload photos from your computer. So be sure and go through both.

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Now, if you’ve followed these instructions and it’s still not working, here are some possible solutions:

PROBLEMS/SOLUTIONS:

This first one is most likely to solve the problem and is from:
http://joshhighland.com/blog/2008/03/30/wordpress-25-image-upload-problem-solved/

Something was for sure messed it. I tried it in several browsers, but had the same results. no luck. I started to go some searching online but since wordpress 2.5 is so new, there was little info to be found. After about an hour of stumbeling around I came across a post on a forum where someone said they got the image upload to work by adjusting their .htaccess file on thier site with the following code.

NOTE: change all the regular brackets ( ) to html code brackets < > when you implement this (I couldn’t use them here as they would screw up the blog code)

(IfModule mod_security.c)
(Files async-upload.php)
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
(/Files)
(/IfModule)

I made the change to my .htaccess file, and like magic the image upload feature started to work again!

I am making this post in the hopes that other people with similar problems will stumble across this post and be able to fix their problem with out having to wade through all the pages of people trying to diagnose what the problem is when the solution is super easy.

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This sounds basic, but it happens all the time with word press and firefox. DO you have the latest version of firefox? Did you try closing down your window and reopening firefox and see if it works?

Can you try it on IE and see if it works?

There are often conflicts with firefox, even though I use it too. But whenever i have a problem like this that should not be happening, I always go check in IE, and then start checking my browser versions, reboot, etc. Then I look to re-install or check for something corrupt in the install.

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If you try all the above and it still doesn’t work and your photo does not appear in your post, then check to see if it has at least been uploaded to the GALLERY.

If it has, then click SHOW ALL for the photo you want to feature.

Then copy the LINK URL for that photo and post that URL into your blog post using the img src=”URL” tag.

So, for example, it would look like this – but just change the regular brackets ( ) to html brackets < >. I can’t use the html brackets here as the blog reads it as code:

(img src=”http://www.colicinfant.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/3onbeachfinal.jpg”)

hope that helps!

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all the best,
Jini