graphility

We at graphility have been struggling for the past couple of weeks with the WordPress media gallery. For some reason, adding media through the WordPress back-end never uploaded anything, even though the media entry seemed to exist.

Searching the forums proved that we were not alone in this situation, as many users report media issues from WordPress 2.8 onwards. Downgrading to 2.7 seemed a solution for most, whilst others seemed to resolve their issues after many trial-and-errors.

We’d like to share the research we did, and what eventually worked for us.

Documentation:

• this forum entry (and the referred entries)

What worked for us:

• if you are using the multilingual CMS WPML plugin, make sure you are up to date. Version 1.5 broke the media library. This bug was fixed from version 1.5.1
• The default repository for the media library is located in wp-content/uploads. If this folder does not exist yet, WordPress is supposed to create it automatically and start uploading there. However, there is a small quirk in WordPress 2.8: the Settings/Miscellaneous page does not provide the proper default entry. Simply type wp-content/uploads, save, and try uploading an image again

We hope this can be useful for anyone pulling his hair out there. If you found any other fixes other than those mentioned in the forum or here, help others by sharing in the comments.