Sankho Mallik's Web Log.

Gotta love that Wordpress. It seems like instead of doing a real, thorough QA, they rely on us to bitch and wine when shit doesn’t work until a.) one of us figures it out, or b.) we complain enough until they figure it out.

Then again, at least it’s a pure open source solution, unlike those greedy bastards at Varien who decided Magento was worth more than the price of a growing community.

But again, I digress.

So, are you among the dozens in this post that can’t upload their images after installing the new Wordpress v 2.8?

Me to. At least I was until I figured out a small solution. I commented on the above post with the information below.

In the wordpress admin, go to “settings,” then “miscellaneous.”

The first input field should be for the directory to which you store your images… for me it was the absolute path to my wp-content/uploads directory so it looked sort of like this

/a/lot/of/directories/until/blog/wp-content/uploads

And that was the error… simply replace whatever is in those fields to

wp-content/uploads

Notice there is no backslash at the beggining! As long as you’re storing your files in the same directory as any normal wordpress user, this ought to work. Basically the trick is to not use the absolute path to the folder and just use whatever folder is under the main wordpress directory.

Make sense?

If this hack manages to work for you, let others know! Or, if it didn’t, let me know so I don’t feel so good about myself (this can be accomplished with numerous other approaches as well).