Image Upload in 2.6 doesn’t work anymore.

I can get the images up and onto the page but the formatting doesn’t work. It’s horrible!

I checked back,

all rights work and the upload works – I could even download the images from the content folder, so the problem is that since 2.6 WP does not show it and if you post it it simply doesn’t appear and the gallery does not show pics.

just to tell what I tried: disabling all plugins, changing themes, setting rights and owner to the images folder(s) on the server. I have the same 2.6 version working well on 2 other blogs that I host, one of them with same theme.

strange..

any help?!?

I HAVE FOUND OUT THE REASON:

I have a special folder to save the images to, the editor links to wp-content/uploads which is the wrong folder position.

if the editor would still link the images correctly gallery and images would work, so it is a bug..

please fix it or I have to do it..

glad to have found the reason, it’s up to you to fix it – wordpress team!!

wp-content/uploads is default but i have it set to just picture which is clear – the coders simply forgot to request this or ignores to check it which isn’t cool –

workaround: copy EVERYTHING from you old picture folder to the wp-content folder and create a folder uploads here, older images MUST be left at the old place to keep the older posts working.

not a cool one, if you are able to set an alias (“link”) on the server just link from your old location to the new one to be sure and reset it to default setting under settings -> misc -> Store uploads in this folder as suggested below and now all your new uploads will work fine.

not a cool workaround but it works, just hope they will put it back in 2.6.1 right? are you reading this?

Thanks Moogulator – I second that – come on WordPress! – great upgrade but I can no longer position pictures effectively – let’s get it sorted!

I am new to hosted WordPress and I cannot upload any images at all. I have tried to ftp them into the folder, but still nothing is seen.

This is the message that I get when I try the browser uploader or the flash uploader:

The uploaded file could not be moved to /home/httpd/vhosts/library-online.org.uk/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/2008/07.

The support at my webhosts are trying everything, but nothing is going right. I thought that I would use WordPress for my new site, but without images it is useless. I am so frustrated with this. I have a free WordPress.com blog that works fine, but I cannot do what I want with it.

I have tried everything that I have seen on this site, but nothing works. Please help.

I second everything said. I’m new to this and until I started uploading pics everything was peachy. Now, because of the pics problem I’m getting very frustrated. It’s very easy to upload and place pics, but they don’t show up!!

Hey Moog,
I was experiencing exactly the same problem as you after upgrading to 2.6.

As you identified, the problem isn’t in the uploading, but rather the wrong URL is linked (this is a database problem).

In my case, I poked around the code a bit and eventually found that an option in the database, upload_url_path, wasn’t set. You can try my fix as follows:

First, lets see if your option is empty (or even there at all). You’ll have to log into your wp database, but really you don’t need to get your hands all that dirty:

SELECT * FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'upload_url_path';

In my case, the row was returned, but the option value was empty. To remedy this, you can simply:

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = 'https://yoursite.com/path/to/upload/dir' WHERE option_name = 'upload_url_path';

If it happened to be the case that this directive wasn’t stored at all (i.e. no rows returned on the SELECT statement above), I’m guessing you can just add it:

INSERT INTO wp_options (option_name, option_value, autoload) VALUES ('upload_url_path', 'https://yoursite.com/path/to/upload/dir', 'yes');

Well it worked for me anyways! =D

Best regards,
Chase

If you update the older ones you’ll might get problems if you’ve linked (or anyone has linked) to older pics. For me the safer solution is the better one. if you do that for CURRENT and COMING posts it will be ok.

What about the problem I am experiencing, ie formatting once the image is uploaded?

Basically I can’t have images and text blocks on the same line any more: it just doesn’t format.

The solution I found was simply adjusting the file path in “Settings >> Miscellaneous” next to the “Store uploads in this folder” area.

The modified path that worked was: “wp-content/uploads” which was also the recommended default location.

I happened to be referencing the path created from the local installation I created on my machine.