If you FTP images onto the server WP will not know they are there. You can access them but not from within the WP admin system.
Exactly what happens when you try to upload using the media uploader? Exactly what happens when you try to upload using the browser uploader? Presumably you get similar errors? That said, its likely a permissions problem.
Thanks. I have read your post about permissions and I don’t understand it, I’m afraid. Too technical.
The flash and browser uploads both seem to upload the images successfully. But no thumbnail is created; same with the ftp. The replacement text is displayed rather than the image. The link says that no image is found in the directory.
http://www.chrisyoung.org.uk
I’m sorry. This is just completely barmy. I installed WordPress with default settings. WHY doesn’t it just work? I seriously don’t have the time to train myself up in every minute aspect of web networking. I just want to get my pictures online. It should be relatively simple. I would have been quicker doing it all in HTML myself. What is up with WordPress that it is so clunky?
Thanks for your links, iridiax. I will have to try using ftp and see what happens. But failure is in danger of pushing me over the edge and leading me to destroy my laptop out of sheer frustration.
WHY doesn’t it just work?
If I’m right, it doesn’t work because of server level settings that the WordPress developers have absolutely no control over, any more than you have control over the speed limits on the roads you drive.
I have set index.php to 666. I have attempted to upload an image via the browser. The URL bar just gives me:
http://www.chrisyoung.org.uk/wp-admin/media-upload.php?inline=&upload-page-form=
and displays a blank page, doing nothing.
When I go back and view my media, the uploaded file is listed, but still with no thumbnail.
What do I have to do?
By the way, I have now created an uploads directory (with permission 755) in wp-content, but that has not changed anything.
I have now created an uploads directory (with permission 755) in wp-content, but that has not changed anything.
See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Image_and_File_Attachments
Prerequisite for Uploading Files
In order to use all these tools, you have to change the chmod of wp-content folder to 777. If you have not changed permissions in order to write in wp-content folder, you will not be able to use the uploader.
Done that. Still not working. Same thing happening.
Aargh!
Contact your web host, some have security settings that prevent uploading files like this.
That might explain it. I have successfully uploaded by ftp, and the image is now inserted, but I don’t really want to have to do that every time.
Thanks for your help so far. 🙂
Now I want to find some simple way of resizing images without having to do mental arithmetic to keep the aspect ratio…
