Have you seen the dreaded: “HTTP error“?
Versions 1.5 through 2.6.1 of WordPress have what some call a bug, others a “feature” in the flash image upload tool. As far as I can tell this is caused by a conflict between WordPress and the latest software from the Flash people. Sometimes the solution is so easy that the reason for the problem seems irrelevant. This is one of those cases.
If you have tried to use the image upload tool when writing a post and recieived any version of the “HTTP Error”, then all you need to do is this. When you click on the “Add Media” button to add a photo to the post you are writing, look for the following line: “You are using the Flash uploader. Problems? Try the Browser uploader instead.” Click the “Browser uploader” link and upload using that tool. It should work perfectly.
If any one continues to have an issue, please post a comment here and I will look into it.
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Wow! this should help me if something goes wrong with the uploader anytime, but I have never seen such an error on my blog. I use the flash uploader. Just pray it’ll be that ways at least until the bug is fixed !
Yeah – It is odd. I have seen sites where it works fine for a while and then stops. On one of my sites, I have started FTP’ing images manually because even though the browser uploader works, the gallery manager does weird things to my images when I want to specify them as 97% of the width of my content column. So it is easier there to just do it the old fashioned way.
This is a case of if it isn’t broke, why fix it? The image tool worked fine in older versions of WordPress. Why they felt they needed to change it, I don’t understand!