• I’m receiving this error message when I attempt to upload any pics to my site. My site was working perfectly until yesterday and now i’m unable to add pictures.

    Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2014/12. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

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  • This error relates to file permissions on your server.
    This can be a relatively technical issue to solve.

    – Do you have FTP access / similar?
    – Do you have an IT provider that setup the server for you?

    To fix the issue you need to understand that the files on the server each have different permissions. These permissions need to be correct, if not – WordPress (or rather, the webserver user that executes your WordPress code) will not be able to upload/create new files (e.g. photos) on the server.

    The following article explains the related concepts and steps (far better than I can). If you are unable to perform the changes yourself, you may be able to request the changes via your hosting provider.

    http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/05/08/proper-wordpress-filesystem-permissions-ownerships/

    I hope that helps 🙂

    Note that –
    By default, WordPress stores uploaded images in a new directory each month.
    Eg:
    /wp-content/uploads/11/image-uploaded-in-nov.jpg
    /wp-content/uploads/12/image-uploaded-in-dec.jpg

    Given we’ve just crossed over to December, this may explain why you are suddenly experiencing issues (and weren’t experiencing them previously).

    Regardless, it’s still a permissions issue – the article I’ve mentioned should help.

    Hi there 😉

    Actually i got similar problem before.

    But my suggestion is not perfect to your problem.

    If you cannot solve it by above mention, let’s use follow this.

    * Check your host current capacity.

    When i faced this problem, i sow my host capacity was full.

    If you get this, let’s expand host capacity.

    Anyway, i hope you can solve it thanks.

    Thread Starter Trixi

    (@trixi)

    40 MB – We recommend setting memory to at least 64MB. See: Increasing memory allocated to PHP

    Log directory (D:\Hosting\11947185\html/wc-logs/) is not writable. To allow logging, make this writable or define a custom WC_LOG_DIR.

    I also see these two messages are they related to my problem?

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