[housekeeper]

Okay, so for more than several years I've accepted and lived with the fact that the "image uploader" in ALL my blogs simply doesn't work. I'm talking several blogs across two servers, when it first went south on me I questioned people in forums, etc. but to no avail. So I simply through in the towel and chalked it up as one of the great mysteries of the universe, though there is a fix for it I know. I live with it because between ftp and uploading through my control panel, life goes on. All my plugins work, so I don't complain.

So I decide to install a gallery plugin, well actually I've worked my way through 3 now, each time having to write into the plugin makers page as well as sending a direct message. The first plugin I chose required that I upload my images to a google server, pass... The second attempt didn't function and I simply just tossed that into the trash. So now I'm determined and try a third plugin, which of course presents me with another monumental quandary of similar proportions.

Anyhow, long story short, I write the creator of the plugin directly to ask what directory the images should go, also explaining the my "image upload" function doesn't and hasn'tt worked ever. So he writes me back to say that if the image uploader doesn't work, then the plugin won't work.

Here's where I think I'm a little batty, the image uploader sends the image somewhere on the server, it has to live on the server and ultimately in some directory. So is it perhaps that the directory that is created is random and you wouldn't be able to know beforehand? The jpg file would remain a jpg, only perhaps the name would change. Or did this guy simply flip me the bird and tell me take a hike. The simple code has to call to something, right? Surely there must be a hard code solution, or maybe I am completely nuts...

So then here is his response:
"It's not that simple. They pulled from images uploaded to / attached to the page. Everything in wordpress is uploaded into the uploads folder." Isn't that what I'm saying? What am I missing here...

[Tigger]

I've only ever had problems once with uploading images and then it was a permissions problem with the host - have you tried contacting them

[housekeeper]

Originally Posted by Tigger

I've only ever had problems once with uploading images and then it was a permissions problem with the host - have you tried contacting them

The odd thing about it is that the uploader tried to write to this directory 2010/11, it's not even pointing towards the current directory.

mysteries of the universe...

[Tigger]

mysteries of the universe

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[Gaystoryman]

Hmm, I'd ask the following.

In your config file, have you set any of the parameters to something custom?

In your wp-content there should be an upload directory, that has to be writeable by the system

In your admin>settings>media have you set the actual file path? it usually looks like /home/user/public_html/directory/wp-content/uploads ?

Next Generation Gallery uploads to a file, you designate, if you choose and is the most popular gallery plugin around, but warning it is a true resource hog, almost uses as much resources as takes red wine breaks.

hth somewhat

[housekeeper]

Originally Posted by Gaystoryman

it is a true resource hog, almost uses as much resources as takes red wine breaks.

that's A LOT of resources!

I'll check it out, I just got done saving a bunch of plugin links so I can choose the correct one.

Thanks so much for your help GSM, I think you've proven there's still a little sanity left in this old boy...

[fletcherhook]

try Drag Drop Uploader gives you an alternative option to upload bulk images on Blogger since in uploading images has limit.