When upgrading to Wordpress 2.5 and above, many users are experiencing difficulties uploading images through the visual editor.

Most users are receiving a “HTTP ERROR” or similar. Searches showed that this was experienced by many others and some people were so annoyed by it, they had downgraded their blogs 2.3.3 just to get around it. Others, were uploading images via FTP or through CPanel and using the URL to display to them.

The solution, I discovered is very simple and takes only a few minutes to implement. In order to make it easy for people, I have videoed the process so that you can fix image uploads on your Wordpress 2.5 and upwards blogs yourself.

The code to insert into the .htaccess file for the blog (it should be in the main directory that the blog resides in), is:

<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>

Copy and paste the above lines straight into the .htaccess file and your image upload problems should be resolved.

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