Quite a times when either we or you experienced an image upload issue. It means as soon as we upload an image in WordPress, it will show up as broken in the media library or sometimes even more worst, we will not be able to upload any image in WordPress. To help you on this, in this article, we will show you up on how to fix image upload issue in your WordPress blog.
#1 Understanding Problem – What Causing It?
The issue caused mainly because of the wrong file permissions. It means that the file permissions you set in your WordPress blog is meant to be wrong. In short, you need to correct those file permissions so that you will be able to upload images to your website.
#2 Why This Happened?
This can be happened because of one-to-many reasons, say your hosting company upgrade something from the backend and result of which, the file permissions got changed. Similar way, on shared hosting which is quite a poorly configured also results in ending up wrong file permissions result of which you would not be able to upload the images.
#3 How To Solve It?
In order to solve it, you would be requiring a FTP client, like Filezilla. Once you connect your website using the FTP client, then you need to go your website’s wp-content directory where you will find an /uploads/ folder. Right clicking on the folder will show options to your, where you will find file permissions as one of options available.
On selecting “file permissions,” a whole new dialog box will appear in front of you. In this you have to set file permissions for uploads directory. Well, to perform this task, enter 744 in the numberic value box and once done, you need to check the box next to Recurse into subdirectories. As soon as you complete the task, click on “Apply to directories only” radio button. Click OK and you are done.
The next step which you have to perform is to set file permissions for all the files in the uploads directory. The step again (almost) follow the same suite as above, simply right click on uploads directory followed by selecting file permissions. In this, at the file permissions dialog box, change the numeric value to 644. Now, once done, check on the box next to Recurse into subdirectories. Click OK and you are done.
You often find out ways for your WordPress blog with which you can enhance the interaction between your blog’s visitors, then whether the way by addition of even images and videos in your blog’s comments. Addition of images and videos in comments will without a doubt give a whole new life to your blog as well as it interest readers a step more to get involve. It’s not like a huge hectic step for you to consider or think of while making this thing happened in your blog, but it’s just the use of two plugins inside your blog. In this tutorial, we are going to talk about the plugins name: Comment Images and oEmbed in Comments.
Plugin 1: Comment Images
The plugin Comment Images will give readers the ability to upload an image to their comment right from the comment form.
Features:
Will notify the administrator if the plugin is not compatible with their hosting environment
Supports PNG, GIF, JPG, and JPEG images
Will notify readers if their attached image is not allowed to be uploaded
Styles images so that they will fit within the comment display and not “bleed over” into the page
Provides dashboard functionality for seeing the images that are attached to each comment
The plugin oEmbed in Comments is an easy way to embed media. It turns links into embedded content automatically. It allows you to embed videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and other video sites that WordPress supports. Interestingly, the plugin also lets you insert documents from places like Scribed and other sites that WordPress supports.
You just completed your website migration from some other platform (say Joomla and Drupal) over to WordPress and noticed that your images are still making a link to the old source. What makes a problem here sometimes is that importing images from external links can be quite difficult on several occasions. In this article, we showcased the best avail plugins which you can use on to import your external images in WordPress with a few easy clicks. To notice on if the images have been moved, then you have to see in your WordPress Admin’s Media section.
Import External Images
The plugin lets you make local copies of all the linked images in a post, adding them as gallery attachments.
The plugin lets you create local copies of external images in the src attribute of img tags. It extracts a list of IMG tags in the post, saves copies of those images locally as gallery attachments on the post.
The plugin will automatically add external images of a post to WordPress upload directory. The plugin search for images url which exists in post and automatically upload external images to WordPress upload directory and replace external link with your link.
As soon as the post is published, the plugin will fetch the first remote/external image that is referenced. The image that is retrieved is then attached to the post as the featured image while there are no settings to configure.
The article title itself gives you the first glimpse that what actually I am going to talk about. Is it just like a regular theft or more than that? It happens very often that you found people over the internet using your work i.e. your content, your images, your videos or more even your whole of website as it is.
Using the work sounds fine at least till the time if one give proper credits back, but in mostly (or better maximum 7 in 10 cases), people never put back the proper credits back to you. In short they just simply reproduce your work for their own use. This is what it called to be as stealing. Isn’t a sound hard to be heard that someone steal your work via internet?
Now what if they steal of say if someone going to steal your work? Do there are ways by which you can protect your work – your digital property – from these thieves who just don’t care and simply without taking permission from you steal your work all at once. With writing this article, the main purpose for me to discuss various means by which one can save the digital work. The ways are simple and even result oriented.
Let’s begin with discussing the various things on your website that can be theft out.
Content: The first variant without which your website can’t describe anything. Stealing the content is the simplest way as all one have to do is highlight the content, and then just click CTRL+C and your content is copied. Once copied, one can place it anywhere.
Image: The theft of images is the most common theft. With no security measures taken into consideration, the best way to just right click on the image and click on SAVE AS, and your image is gone i.e. stolen. While another method is to “hotlinking” the images i.e. when a person uses the original link of other website on its own to use someone else’s images.
Videos: Another possible stolen variant is videos. It’s quite an easy task to steal someone’s videos. For doing so, all require is right click on videos (this works with many videos) and one can grab the content simply. In case if you can’t, then one can use the extensions which are easily available for Chrome and Firefox that lets one to download videos.
Downloads: The method not come as direct way of stealing, but say if someone is looking on your server’s directory structure, then it’s hardly a matter of bit of time to find all your digital downloads. Also, one can share you download link or download package directly or on black hat websites.
iFrame: The process is as simple as copying the whole of video with the help of iFrame, but in this one is actually iFraming whole of your website. This means that the whole of website content is showing under the iFrame without giving the visitors back to the original website in return.
What Can Be Done Now To Protect?
You really not want to think that something like the above mentioned happened to your website, but it does happen. The majority of such compromises happen sometimes not only to steal your website but also to use your bandwidth. In order to help you out in avoiding such a massacre, here are our top selected plugins which will help you and your site protected:
WP Content Copy Protection
WP Content Copy Protection is a simple plugin which uses multiple techniques in copy-protecting your blog content. The plugin will disable the common copy methods, such as right clicks, image dragging and keyboard copy shortcuts.
Features:
iFrame Protection
Disables right click function on mouse
Disables image drag and drop function
Disables ‘Hold to Copy’ function on most mobile devices
Displays a client-side error message when Javascript is disabled
Disables combo keyboard command (CTRL A, C, X, U, P) copy/paste/print/view source
Automatically removes the image link URL and defaults the upload settings to ‘none’
The plugin will allows you to automatically add a PNG watermark images with transparency to all images as they are uploaded to the WordPress Media Library. The plugin also supports simple text watermarks with adjustable color, size and transparency.
Features:
Manually Apply Watermarks to Images Previously Uploaded
Fully Adjustable Image Watermark Position
Fully Adjustable Text Watermark Position
Adjustable JPEG Image Output Quality
Highest Quality Watermarks using Image Re-sampling rather than Re-sizing
The plugin uses JavaScript to change the right click action on IMG tags to disable context menu. It disables the context menu on images only so other right click actions, such as links, should work normally. The plugin will find many images generated in scripts or pasted into posts and comments, which similar plugins will not find.
The plugin allows you to watermark your previously uploaded images using a PNG image file with transparency as well as text signature. You can set your watermarks to always be a specific percentage of the target image and will let you add the watermarks to ALL of the images in your WordPress uploads directory.
Features:
Fully Adjustable Text and Image Watermark Positions
Adjustable JPEG Image Output Quality
Highest Quality Watermarks using Image Re-sampling rather than Re-sizing
The plugin allows you to display a watermark within each images being “hotlinked” from your website. A hotlinked image is an image hosted on your website but displayed on another website by an unscrupulous webmaster.
Features:
Add a watermark to all hotlinked image from your blog, on the fly!
All generated pictures are buffered into a directory for optimised use
Choice of watermark: can be a text or a picture
.htaccess update if needed
Can save all the referers (website which steal your bandwidh) on a csv file
Create/delete the buffer directory on install/uninstall of the plugin, for non-wasted disk space
You can choose between 4 fonts for the watermark, and select text and (optional) shadow colors
CopyRightPro is a free version of Wp-Copyrightpro plug-in that prevents the copying of texts and images from your blog, if you install this plug-in, your content of WordPress will be protected.
Features:
Disable selection of text
Disable right click on your WordPress
Protects from iframes Only in wp-copyrightpro Version
Protects from drag and drop images Only in wp-copyrightpro Version
WP-CopyRightPro doesn’t have problems with search engines
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Allowing Images And Videos In WordPress Comments
By The Editorial Team
On September 6, 2013
In Plugins, Tutorials
You often find out ways for your WordPress blog with which you can enhance the interaction between your blog’s visitors, then whether the way by addition of even images and videos in your blog’s comments. Addition of images and videos in comments will without a doubt give a whole new life to your blog as well as it interest readers a step more to get involve. It’s not like a huge hectic step for you to consider or think of while making this thing happened in your blog, but it’s just the use of two plugins inside your blog. In this tutorial, we are going to talk about the plugins name: Comment Images and oEmbed in Comments.
Plugin 1: Comment Images
The plugin Comment Images will give readers the ability to upload an image to their comment right from the comment form.
Features:
More Info | Download
Plugin 2: oEmbed in Comments
The plugin oEmbed in Comments is an easy way to embed media. It turns links into embedded content automatically. It allows you to embed videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and other video sites that WordPress supports. Interestingly, the plugin also lets you insert documents from places like Scribed and other sites that WordPress supports.
More Info | Download