{"id":745,"date":"2008-10-22T07:23:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T14:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=745"},"modified":"2008-10-22T07:23:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T14:23:49","slug":"when-media-file-upload-wont-prompt-for-files-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2008\/10\/22\/when-media-file-upload-wont-prompt-for-files-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"When media file upload won&#8217;t prompt for files in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-745\">\n<p>A couple days ago, I tried to use the web interface to my blog to upload some media files, mostly pictures I had taken.  I clicked the upload button and nothing happened.  I had to do some serious digging but finally found the culprit &#8211; Flash 10.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that file selector is powered by Flash, and its not Version 10 compatible at all.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re using WordPress 2.5.x and run into this problem, you need to do either of two things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grab the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/no-flash-uploader\/\" target=\"_blank\">No Flash Uploader plugin<\/a> from the WordPress plugins pages, or<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/kb.adobe.com\/selfservice\/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157&amp;sliceId=1\" target=\"_blank\">Uninstall Flash<\/a> (there&#8217;s a tool from Adobe) and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/support\/flashplayer\/downloads.html#fp9\" target=\"_blank\">reinstall the Version 9 Flash Player<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I had to find all this stuff with very little sleep (we released some new capabilities to the Classmates web site last night) and so I hoped I could help others (and myself if this happens again).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-745\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 745);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-745\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-745\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple days ago, I tried to use the web interface to my blog to upload some media files, mostly pictures I had taken. I clicked the upload button and nothing happened. I had to do some serious digging but finally found the culprit &#8211; Flash 10. It turns out that file selector is powered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[335],"tags":[348,347,142],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","tag-file-uploader","tag-flash","tag-wordpress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-c1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}