How to Fix Image Uploads in WordPress 2.5 (Temporarily)

As you may be painfully aware, the release of WordPress version 2.5 brought not only a slick new administrative interface, but also broken image/media uploads.

The WordPress support forums currently feature a closed sticky about 2.5’s broken image uploads. The post goes through a number of generic fixes for the problem, such as clearing your browser cache, upgrading Adobe Flash, and re-uploading WordPress’ system files.

I seem to be among the many WordPress users for whom none of these suggestions work, so it’s time to go back to old-fashioned form-based image uploading:

• Download the No-Flash-Uploader plugin.
• Upload no-flash-uploader.php to your WordPress plugins directory (e.g. wp-content/plugins).
• Log into the WordPress administrative interface, click “plugins”, and activate the No-Flash-Uploader plugin.
• Return to the post or page you were editing, and hit the “Add an Image” button. Instead of the new, broken Flash uploader, you will get the traditional HTML form-based interface.

Until the WordPress team comes out with a definitive set of fixes, the No-Flash-Uploader plugin should keep you blogging.