Problem inserting photo's into blog

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  perfectfitkitchens · Member · Mar 2, 2012 at 1:47 pm

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  Hello

  I’m new to WordPress. I have written my first post and want to insert photo’s into it, but uploading just seems to take a long time (I am yet to successfully do so). I am currently trying to upload a 72kb jpeg to no avail.Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong?

  Thanks

  Matt

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  jeffofl · Member · Mar 2, 2012 at 2:05 pm

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  Matt:

  I have read these forums and it 50% of the time people solve this by changing their permissions on the upload directory to 7-5-5.

  The other 50% of the time, people solve this in the dashboard by going to SETTINGS > MEDIA and in the “Uploading Files” section there is a field that says “Store uploads in this folder”.

  Make sure the field says this: wp-content/uploads with no quotes, no leading slashes or anything else. I know other people reported problems by having a leading slash.

  We are having similar issues even after trying the above, but those work for 99% of other people.
  So,,, we looked opn our server using FTP, and saw the images were not in the wp-content/uploads directory! We then FTP’ed the 3 images directly to the wp-content/uploads directory on our server, and that got the images to show up in our blog! Now the thumnails are showing up in the MEDIA > LIBRARY of the Dashboard.

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  jeffofl · Member · Mar 2, 2012 at 2:07 pm

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  Matt, forgot to mention, my above post assumes that you are hosting WordPress on your own server. The main thing if you are doing this is to make sure you have permissions set on the upload folder: wp-content/uploads

  on your server. It’s simple to change the permission, jsut have your tech folks do it for you.

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  perfectfitkitchens · Member · Mar 2, 2012 at 2:11 pm

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  Jeffofl, thanks for your advice. I’m not hosting WordPress on my own server. I will try and apply your advice, thank you very much!

  Matt

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 2, 2012 at 2:18 pm

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  His advice doesn’t apply to your blog at all. Ignore it.

  First, is your Flash up to date? What browser and version are you using?

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  perfectfitkitchens · Member · Mar 2, 2012 at 2:26 pm

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  To be sure, I am just updating Flash to 11.1. My browser is the latest IE.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 2, 2012 at 5:24 pm

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  Have you tried clearing your browser cache and cookies? http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=32050
  Have you tried using the browser with all extensions or add-ons disabled?
  Do you have JavaScript enabled? http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12654
  Do you have another browser you can try?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 2, 2012 at 5:25 pm

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  See also these troubleshooting images tips

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  perfectfitkitchens · Member · Mar 5, 2012 at 10:15 am

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  Hi Timethief
  Sorry for my delayed response. Thanks for the tips, I will try these and let you know how I get on.

  Matthew