Unable to set featured image on post

  • Resolved JamieKD

    (@jamiekd)


    10 years, 1 month ago

    Hello all

    I have exhausted a fair amount of time troubleshooting this issue, so I now turn to you for help!

    My problem;

    1. I click ‘Set featured image’ when editing a post
    2. This displays the usual popup, but the media library tab is empty (the media library has images). I get an error when I add an image under the upload tab (this image does actually upload to the media library).

    Solutions that I have tried;

    1. De-activating all plugins
    2. Replacing all of the core files other than the wp-content folder
    3. Switching to the 2014 theme. This fixes the problem

    I am currently working on a local development with WAMP. I started with this biolerplate – https://github.com/olefredrik/foundationpress. It has now been heavily modified.

    I added a featured image to a post yesterday, so it was working. I have done a lot of work since, too much to backtrack. The problem is with my theme files. I just don’t know how to troubleshoot this problem?

    Many thanks in advance!

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    10 years, 1 month ago

    . I get an error when I add an image under the upload tab (this image does actually upload to the media library).

    What is that entire error?

    Jeff Matson

    (@jeffmatson)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    In addition to what Andrew said above, what are your file permissions for the /wp-content/uploads directory? Be sure that the correct owner and permissions are set. Typically, your permissions for folders will be 755.

    Thread Starter JamieKD

    (@jamiekd)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks for responding!

    The error wasn’t very informative – like this;
    http://www.geteverything.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/14.png

    I would have presumed that file permissions would not be used on a local install, since the uploads folder is stored locally on my computer?

    Thread Starter JamieKD

    (@jamiekd)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    P.s.

    As mentioned before, despite recieving the error when trying to upload from the featured image popup, the image does actually upload and appears when I access the media library directly.

    Thread Starter JamieKD

    (@jamiekd)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    I just discovered this, looks like it may be the best way to troubleshoot my issue;
    https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress

    Thread Starter JamieKD

    (@jamiekd)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    The Debugging was of no use. Flagged up nothing.

    I did however find the problem! 🙂

    Having narrowed down my issue to changes within my custom theme, I began to revert important files to the originals and checking to see if the issue with the had been fixed.

    When I replaced the functions.php with the original the problem was fixed! So it was then just a case of comparing the original file to my latest broken version and making changes to make it work again.

    TJ Kelly

    (@tjkelly)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    @JamieDK, what was the problem within your functions.php file that caused this conflict/error?

    A similar problem just started on one of my sites and I don’t think we’ve modified the functions file recently. Still trying to chase possibilities. Any ideas what your root cause was?

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