Image upload not working in WordPress 2.8

I’ve had this problem for each of my wordpress installs and I have finally figured it out.

YOU MUST ADD THE DIRECTORY TO YOUR SERVER!!!

On your server in directory in wp-content folder create a new folder call ‘uploads’

Then login to wordpress and under the Settings –>Miscellaneous
there is a section asking ‘Store Uploads in this folder’ enter wp-content/uploads (even if it says something else or is blank)

This worked (finally!) for me

Wow, this thread has gone quiet. Everyone must have found the answer, except me!

I have the upload/insert icons, but clicking them does nothing.

I have no plugins to disable. My path is set correctly in miscellaneous. I have an /uploads directory on my server.

Firefox 3.5.

Where’s everyone gone? Gimme a link to the solution ??

Thanks.

Same problem – media buttons are all inactive. The arrows to drop down the menus in the admin section don’t work either. I’m running WordPress 2.8.5, using either Safari or Firefox 3.5.3. Everything works fine on my 6 or 7 other sites running WP 2.8.5… so I’m going to try reinstalling it and will let you know if it helps.

Aha – just disabled all plugins and everything is back to normal. Will investigate and report…

Found it – in my case, it’s the iTunes Affiliate Link Maker plugin that caused the problem. In addition, after adding the plugin, I get a message that it’s out of date – and yet when I try to update it, I’m told it’s NOT out of date. I’ll put this info on the plugin comments…

Image upload function not working here also,

I have 3 sites running 2.8.5. One is an old site that has been upgraded to 2.8.5 (has always been upgraded regularly). This one is a live site on BlueHost. The other two are brand new sites on my local apache2 server. These new sites have no plugins enabled, no content added, and they use the default theme.

All 3 sites have the exact same problem — I cannot insert images into posts.

When I click on the image upload button, the uploader loads below the footer portion of the page instead of superimposing over the current screen as it should. What’s worse, is it is also offset to the left so that most of it is off the screen and inaccessible to use. I try to load into a new tab in FireFox (3.5.5) and I get all the functions working except “insert in post.” after hitting that, I get a blank white screen and nothing is inserted in the post.

I have created a ticket on this, but so far it is unassigned and no response. This is a shame really. I cannot use my site due to this and cannot develop the other two on my local server until this is resolved. It’s been two weeks now.

I have tried all the usual solutions, read maybe a hundred posts on the problem, and played with permissions to no avail.

I have installed a couple Joomla isites on my local server as a result. I can’t wait for WordPress forever. I may switch. I don’t want to, but what choice do I have?

Maybe WordPress has gotten ahead of itself with the latest releases.

Best,
John

I’m having the same problem- asked on here and reported bug to www.remarpro.com people twice- haven’t heard anything- Last week I was able to copy/paste but now I can’t even do that. It’s driving me nuts. I’m also surprised that there isn’t another update to correct this problem- everyone shouldn’t have to deactivate all plugins.

For anyone interested I think I found a fix that works for me. I was able to have media work on saved drafts and published items, but not on new posts or pages. I found that changing the temp_ID did the trick for me. I changed this line in two files:

$temp_ID = -1 * time(); to $temp_ID = 1 * time();

The files are both in wp-admin:

1. edit-form-advanced.php
2. edit-page-form.php

Hope That Helps,
Andrew

Havent blogged in a while and found my button media upload buttons greyed out and unresponsive, as mentioned above. I upgraded to 2.9 this morning, upgraded all plugins and disactivated them, cleared caches, confirmed my upload directories are fine and more. 3 hours later, still no love, unfortunately. Anyone else got updates on this struggle since 2.9 came out?

Would appreciate the help! Have a great NYE.

Arthur

Same here. Just upgraded to 2.9 and added a new theme and all the media upload buttons are greyed out and unresponsive.

https://www.xxxxxxxxx.com/wp-admin/media-upload.php?post_id=-1262670876&type=image&TB_iframe=true

I tried deactivating all the plugins but still no response.

To update what I said about changing $temp_ID I have found that affects using custom_fields on adding so I’ve gone back to just saving a draft if I need to do an attachment or custom field.

I’m having the same problem. The image uploading buttons become non-responsive. I click them, and nothing.

My work around is to save the article as a draft and then restart apache. Then the uploader works for a while… until it doesn’t again. I’ve tried just saving as a draft, and that doesn’t work. And I’ve tried just restarting apache, and that doesn’t work. You need to:

1. Save as a draft
2. Restart apache
3. Reload the article in the editor

But it’s kind of overkill to fix a bug like this.

was running WP 2.9.1 with PHP 4 and encountered the following problems:
?unable to upload .jpgs or .pngs while editing a post (HTTP error, Internal 500 Errors, issues with image.php file… it gave me a few different reasons)
?.jpgs and .pngs not working with nextGen (it would say upload was successful but then errors would populate below and a broken image would populate in the gallery)
?.gifs worked in both scenarios

updated to php 5.2.12 and all is running smoothly again.

I am having the same problem as everyone else. Infact all actived plugins like TDO Mini Forms, Next Gen Gallery, WP Group Restristions, all causes the image upload link to be disabled permently. I have tried disabling and removing the plugins but the issue still remains. I will have to reinstall WordPress, not good.

I have the same problem. I’ve done the above mentioned stuff, and no luck so far. One new wrinkle I’ve noticed, the drop down arrows on the toolbar on the right are now non-functioning too. If I click on them, nothing happens. I have to click directly on one of the name links to open up a section. I saw a java comment pop up at one point, but it wouldn’t recreate. I’m actually using Chrome, but I tried doing it in Firefox too and the results are identical. I can still use an img tag, but that is just a bit frustrating to have to manually code every time (so it links, sizing it, etc). Hope someone comes up with a solution soon. I had hoped it was just because I hadn’t upgraded yet, but once I did, didn’t help.