Insert image into post not working – please help

  • Resolved nigedo

    (@nigedo)


    14 years, 4 months ago

    I am trying to insert an image from the media library into a post/page.

    I follow the normal steps:

    – click in the post where I want the image
    – click Upload/Insert
    – go to the Media Library tab and choose my image
    – click on Insert into Post button

    When I click the button, the frame loads the default page template with the message “Not Found”.

    Why would the admin backend be loading the front end page.php to display a message? I just don’t have a clue what’s happening.

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    Have you tried:

    – deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    – switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

    – re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download of WordPress.

    Thread Starter nigedo

    (@nigedo)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks for the reply esmi.

    I have tried all of your suggestions. This is not a theme or plugin issue. It seems to be a problem with the media library.

    I cloned this site from a database dump of another site by uploading it in phpmyadmin.

    The problem seems to be related to the link URL’s in the media library. When I upload a new image, it is trying to allocate a link URL based on an upload date of June 2011. Clearly something has been overwritten in the db that points to the media upload date/URL.

    I have looked through the database and can’t find where this pointer string would be stored.

    The wp-admin and wp-includes folders are both default – I have performed an in place reinstall of the latest WordPress version.

    Can anyone point me to where the media library stores its pointers?

    Thread Starter nigedo

    (@nigedo)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    OK I figured out the cause of this issue.

    I cloned the site from a database dump of another WordPress site, but the original site was running WordPress version 3.2 and the latest version made a few changes to the media library.

    I’m assuming that the database tables didn’t match up between versions so it was Producing Strangeness ™.

    I went back and updated the original site to WordPress 3.1.3 and restarted the process, which fixed the issue.

    Thanks for the help. Please mark this one as resolved.

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