Did you try searching the forums before posting? Only this has been answered hundred (if not thousands) of times.
Try changing the permissions on the wp-content directory to 766. If you still have problems, try 767, 775 or 777. Once your uploads are working, change the permissions on wp-content back to 755 again and check that everything still works OK.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
Thread Starter
Lala Diva
(@jessica-leschnikoff)
Hi Esmi,
Thanks for the reply, but I’ve already tried all of that and non of it works. Furthermore, I think it might be helpful for people to understand why this happens. I uploaded a picture only a day ago with no problems at all – and suddenly this happens… I’ve made no changes to the blog, added no more plugins… basically nothing has changed…
Any further ideas?
Thanks J
It happens because Word\press does not have the correct permissions to create folders and/or add images to the wp-content folder on your site. If the situation has changed without any apparent reason in the past few days, perhaps your hosts have changed something on your server?
Thread Starter
Lala Diva
(@jessica-leschnikoff)
Hi Esmi,
Actually, in this case, it was the fault of my hosting providers. They had migrated my website to a different server, and I had to change the server number in the path to my uploads folder via settings – media in the dashboard. It had nothing to do with permissions.
I have told my hosts that they should have advised me as such, but it was a small oversight and they were knew exactly what to do.
Problem solved!
Thanks for your help though – 🙂