Media upload issues with new WordPress version

This seems to be happening to a lot of people (including me).
List of things that have been tried with no solution:

• Deactivating all plugins
• using a different theme
• uploading all 3 ways (add media/featured image selection/dragging image to upload area)
• even directly uploading the image to the uploads folder in hosting

Strangely nothing has worked which leads me to think its the updated release of WordPress. No issues were found until the update.
If anyone knows how to get into contact with WordPress admins for this fix… a lot of people could use the help.

It looks like it’s a server timeout issue. This seemed to have worked for me:

Open wp-config.php in your sites main directory via FTP (or cPanel)
Scroll to the line which reads:

/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

Add the code above the line:

set_time_limit(60);
/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */text

Some hosting companies may not allow you to overwrite this setting from wp-config. However, you can still try.

Ik have a similar problem with Coleman.
Adding set_time_limit(60); did not help.
I already switched back to the standard theme and disabled all the plugins, but that didn’t help as well. Directory permissions are ok (755)

However, it seems to upload the (first) file in some way (and then it just stops), because I can see the file in Filezilla, and it is complete and correct, but it show broken in WordPress. And if I add pictures manually in Filezilla, I can’t see them at all in WordPress Media Liberary…

Help 🙁

Meanwhile my hosting company moved the site to a newer server (or at least they said they would do so, but never actually comfirmed this) and all seems to be working fine now.

@christine36 I don’t remember them asking me anything like that. I just told them what my problem was with uploading images and the errors I was getting. The lady was very helpful and said they had several calls recently regarding this issue. She is the one that told me she could increase the php memory and it should resolve the problem. She then tested it on my site for me while I was on my website backend too. I would try calling back and you should get a different tech person who will hopefully be able to help you. I wouldn’t tell them what they need to do, but maybe suggest that “someone else I know had this problem and GoDaddy tech said they resolved it by increasing the php memory.” if they don’t have a clue how to fix it. I happened to talk to a tech lady who had this issue several times before me, so hopefully it all works out for you.

If you have upgraded to WP 4.5 and the problem started then…

There is an extensive thread here with several workarounds: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/http-error-when-uploading-images-17/

It’s my understanding that WP 4.5 does so much more processing with images and especially on shared hosting, it’s creating problems. There are two distinct workarounds that many have had success with. I tried the htaccess method and it solved the problem for me.

1) Add this to your .htaccess file at the root of your WordPress installation just before the # BEGIN WordPress line:

SetEnv MAGICK_THREAD_LIMIT 1

OR

2) add this to your themes functions.php file (actually add to a child theme functions.php file or use a plugin likeCode Snippets )

add_filter( 'wp_image_editors', 'change_graphic_lib' );

function change_graphic_lib($array) {
return array( 'WP_Image_Editor_GD', 'WP_Image_Editor_Imagick' );
}

Alternatively, you may install this plugin instead to change the default image editor:
default-to-gd

If neither of these works for you, try reading the thread mentioned at the top to see what others have done.