Can’t upload images to your WordPress site? Image upload errors can be very confusing to most beginners because they can appear without you needing to do anything else.
Error uploading images is one of the most common image issues in WordPress. Fortunately, it’s easy to fix and you can do it yourself.
Here’s how you can easily fix the WordPress image upload problem. Additionally, we will explain what causes this issue, and how you can avoid it in the future.
Problems uploading images in WordPress are often caused by incorrect file permissions. Your WordPress files are stored on your web hosting server and require specific file and directory permissions to function.
Due to incorrect file permissions on the hosting server, WordPress cannot access files and upload them. You may receive the following error when uploading an image file: Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2022/14. Has the server permission to write to the directory’s parent?
It is also possible that your images do not appear in the media library as a result of this issue. To resolve the image upload issue, you should change the file permissions.
Connect to your website through FTP to update the file permissions. Go to the /wp-content/ directory. You’ll find the uploads folder inside, which contains all of your media uploads, including photographs. Select File permissions from the right-click menu on the uploads folder, as shown below.
The file permissions dialog box will appear as a result of this.
To begin, change the file permissions for the uploads directory and all of its subdirectories to 744.
The file permissions dialog box will appear as a result of this.
To begin, change the file permissions for the uploads directory and all of its subdirectories to 744.
To do so, type 744 into the numeric value box and check the box next to the option to recurse into subdirectories. Now select the radio choice that says ‘Apply to directories only.’To save your changes, click the OK button. The file permissions for the directories will now be applied by your FTP client.
Note: If changing directory permissions to 744 does not resolve your issue, try 755.
The next step is to set file permissions for all files in the uploads directory.
Right-click on the uploads directory and select file permissions. Change the numeric value in the file permissions dialog box to 644.
Select the Recurse into the subdirectories checkbox. Finally, select the ‘Apply to files only’ radio button. To save these changes, click the OK button.
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Shobuj roy
June 16, 2022