Oct 31 2008
WordPress 2.6 Flash Image Uploader Broken
My wife uses WordPress for her blog, and complained the other night that she was no longer able to use the Flash uploader to add photos to her web site. Digging around the web for an answer, I came across this support post on WordPress.org: Image/Media Uploader problems? It walks through some common problems, and then gets to this big:
3. Update your Adobe Flash to the latest version (esp you Linux users!): Flash. NOTE: NOT TO VERSION 10. The new Flash version 10 is incompatible. The latest version 9 of Flash is what you want. There will likely NOT be a fix for this any time soon, since the problem is actually with Flash 10 itself. Stick with Flash 9 for the time being.
This raises the question of how one installs Flash 9 if you’ve already got Flash 10. Adobe doesn’t make this easy — I couldn’t find a direct link from the Adobe Flash home page — but fortunately Google dug up the archived version page:
The problem is even after reverting back to Flash 9, this still doesn’t work. Oh I can click the button now and select a file, but once selected said file never uploads; the browser just sits there. Searching it around, it appears I’m not the only one experiencing this.
So the short answer seems to be “use the browser uploader and hope the flash one is fixed … someday.”
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Agreed. It doesn’t work on edublogs either, at least on my account! There is a workaround. If you can get it into the gallery, you can scrape the url and add it as a linked image. Or just use the old upload tool. This worked for me on wordpress.com, but I had to use the workaround for either method on edublogs. I can get items into the gallery, but never complete the actual embed to the post. I just get a blank screen and nothing happens.