Cannot Add Image (not upload)

Update: I logged in as a contributor myself and I also cannot get to the ‘add image’ screen. I am getting the error that I don’t have permission to upload files. I don’t want to upload files! Ijust want to add the URL where an image is hosted.

Still haven’t heard a suggest for the right fix for this but I managed to work around it somehow.

I went into wp-admin.media-upload.php and commented out the line that says :

wp_die(__(‘You do not have permission to upload files.’));

The flash uploader still gives an error but the browser uploader works.

Now, as a contributor you can upload photos, which is not what I wanted but at least they can get into the uploader now.

Still waiting to hear for the right thing to do.

Thanks Otto.

My contributors have been using the image uploader screen to drop in their own url to an image for months now…the images are hosted on their own site, not uploaded onto my space. I don’t want contributors to have more capabilities that come with being an author or higher so that is why I haven’t changed them.

On another note…I put everything back to how it was because it was the Dagon Sitemap Generator that was interfering with the uploader. I deactivated it and all works as it was. Now I have to figure out how to get a sitemap generated or wait for them to upgrade. Come to think of it, this did start happening when the newest version of DDSitemap came out.