Apr 12 2008

WordPress 2.5 Flash Image Uploader

Published by at 3:06 pm under Site

I’ve had nothing but trouble with the image uploader ever since 2.5 was released. For some reason, the developers felt it was necessary to use Flash to upload the images. I kept getting HTTP errors for some reason and judging by many of the other WordPress users, I’m not alone. I found a lot of blog entries about this, some of which proposed solutions, but I decided to use the plugin made available on the official site which disables the flash functionality.

I activated the plugin about five minutes ago and I uploaded a test image just to see if it works, and I haven’t had any problems. I’m guessing WordPress 2.5.1 will be released pretty soon, either to remove the flash functions or to actually fix it. Personally, I see no reason why Flash was needed. I suppose somebody felt it had to be used just to keep things new and fancy… but that didn’t work out so well, now did it?

There’s an old saying… if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. WordPress developers should have listened. Now they have to fix what they broke. Nice job, guys.

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