Title: New post form encoding
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# New post form encoding

 *  [fhsm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fhsm/)
 * (@fhsm)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-post-form-encoding/)
 * I have a custom plugin that uses a plugin defined meta box added onto the new
   posts page to accept and upload media files.
 * This plugin has worked without any problem on a multi-site network since initial
   setup back at 3.0.
 * I’d fallen behind on upgrades so I just jumped from 3.0.1 to 3.0.5 and then to
   3.1 and the unloader stopped working. When I investigated I found that the $_FILES
   array was empty.
 * I’m able to restore functionality to the site forcing the post form to multipart
   encoding. I’m doing so using a [variation of this JavaScript](http://www.hashbangcode.com/blog/add-enctype-wordpress-post-and-page-forms-471.html).
 * I’m not wild about fixing this using JavaScript. Can someone point me to the 
   change in core between 3.0.1 and 3.0.5 that caused this form encoding problem
   to arise? Whatever the problem 3.1 did not fix it.

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