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Aug 8th

Wordpress 2.6 Uploading Broken Images - Fix

Topics: All Things Wordpress

If you have just upgraded to Wordpress 2.6 you might notice one slight problem. You are no longer able to upload your images. They show up as broken images. It doesn’t matter whether you use the AJAX option or not, the result is the same.

Surprisingly not everyone is facing this problem.

A client of mine has the exact same configuration on his blog (give or take a couple of plugins) as mine. However, he faced the broken image problem while I did not. Of course we have blogs on different servers so that might have something to do with it.

The Fix

The fix is pretty simple. It’s just finding it that takes time :)

  1. Browse to your Wordpress admin settings.
  2. Click on Miscellaneous
  3. The first field there is ‘Store uploads in this folder’ and most probably contains the folder wp-content/uploads. The second field ‘Full URL path to files (optional)’ is most likely blank. It is this field which you need to fill up. Add the full path to your uploads folder as follows (assuming your upload folder is wp-content/uploads).

    http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-content/uploads

    Your images should now upload without a problem.

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10 Responses to “Wordpress 2.6 Uploading Broken Images - Fix”


  1. On August 11th, 2008 1:34 pm

    Hi, thanks for your post, great tips.

  2. On August 20th, 2008 7:57 am

    I do use WP 2.6 but I have not noticed this problem. Thanks for warning.

  3. On August 21st, 2008 1:13 pm

    It is one of those problems that just crops up once in a while. Most probably has to do with your server settings. I didn’t have the problem at my blog either.

  4. Alex

    On September 8th, 2008 12:52 am

    I just ran into this very same problem and wasted a couple of hours searching for a solution. I thought that my problems were related to running WP on XAMPP under Windows and directory permissions, so I was looking for a solution in a wrong place. I am glad I found your post or who knows how much longer I’d be searching for a fix. Thanks a lot!

  5. On September 8th, 2008 1:51 am

    Glad you have been able to fix it. This one freaked me out, too, when I first encountered it.

  6. On October 24th, 2008 4:46 pm

    Thanks, very helpfull

  7. mindy

    On October 29th, 2008 12:33 pm

    this did not help me. the image uploads but appears broken still. i did the absolute path. i even changed the storage directory. can someone help me?

  8. On October 31st, 2008 12:16 pm

    @mindy, Sorry to hear that. Try upgrading to the latest version. Perhaps that has a fix.

  9. On November 13th, 2008 12:11 pm

    I had exactly the same problem. Thanks for help!

  10. On November 13th, 2008 1:36 pm

    Glad I could help :)


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