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Wordpress Upload Woes

I love using Wordpress, but this has really bugged me. It’s when three parties who all intertwine come together and neither has a solution. Flash 10 has broken the upload part of Wordpress, and that is ridiculously frustrating.

Here’s the problem: in Wordpress, there’s a little application that powers the upload feature, SWFupload. That’s powered by Javascript and Flash. The new version of Flash Player 10 recognizes me clicking “upload” as a security issue and says “no” when I tried to upload something.

That sucks.

So I went to go check out why and essentially, Adobe made a decision about this that wasn’t fixed SWFupload nor were Wordpress users notified. You just update your Flash player and now nothing works. Essentially, other users of SWFupload have this same issue.

There’s a ridiculous patch for SWFupload in Wordpress available here, if you’re really keen on patching a bunch of files and hoping they work, debugging, etc. I don’t have that kind of time, so luckily, someone made a patch with a new Beta version of SWFupload, but it was only for Wordpress 2.6.3.

Granted a good deal of us have already upgraded to 2.7, and I’m still on 2.5.

So I had to find the legacy version 2.6.3 (available here), upgrade to that, then apply the patch to get things to work and hope nothing else breaks in the process.

Luckily I was successful and all seems to be working, but it looks like i’ll be stuck on 2.6.3 until there’s an official patch to get this all up and running the way it’s supposed to be. But in the meantime, this was just stupid.

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