Change your permissions - WordPress.org

Taking what I learned in the above article and several other, I boiled it down to a few commands, if you have shell access (if you don’t you really should).

cd into where ever your wordpress is located.
chmod -R 644 *

• The wordpress article says that no file needs more then 644 and you could probably even do a 640, but I just stuck with 644.

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

• This changes the permissions on all the directories to be 755

chmod 600 wp-config.php 

• And this makes the wp-config.php file only useable by the webserver, no one else can read or write it

Make Sure you default folder is set correctly

Go to Settings > Miscellaneous and check that the default folder for uploading is set to /wp-content/uploads/. There are times when the folder is not properly defined.

Check htaccess

Something that most articles didn’t talk about was look in you htaccess file.  An article at bloggingtip.net, was talking about adding a few lines to your .htaccess file.  This got me thinking that I don’t remember seeing an .htaccess file out there in my wordpress directory.

After verifying that I really did not have a .htaccess for this directory, I created a .htaccess and added the following lines to that file.
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress

Once I added that file and added these few lines that should have been created as I installed wordpress, but for some reason, it wasn’t so if you run into this problem in one of your wordpress sites, make sure you have a .htaccess file in your wordpress directory to make sure that everything works as you might expect it to.

]]> http://d-kidd.com/wordpress/wordpress-the-uploaded-file-could-not-be-moved-to-error/feed/ 0 http://d-kidd.com/development/wordpress-2-9-1/ http://d-kidd.com/development/wordpress-2-9-1/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:48:30 +0000 DKidd http://d-kidd.com/?p=49 So I have just updated this site to version 2.9.1, and it is working quite well.  I have just noticed the coolest thing..  I think it was implemented in WordPress 2.9, but either way, if you put a url in your post is like a link for a video from Flickr or something. Just putting this url in your post, with nothing else special, will embed the video straight in the post.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkidd/4256016317/

Even though the URL is for the page that the image or in this case video is on, WordPress is smart enough to embed the video for us right into wordpress.  We could put the embed code around the URL and it will do the same thing, but with the embed tag in wordpress we can make the video/picture a particular size.  so like this is an embed width=200