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/wordpress/useful-wordpress-plugins/ http://d-kidd.com/wordpress/useful-wordpress-plugins/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:10:45 +0000 DKidd http://d-kidd.com/?p=192 I wanted to share some of my favorite wordpress plugins I have found, to help make my life easier…

• FeedWordPress - This is probably one of my favorite plugins right now.  I have several sites that I just aggregate content onto.  So its kind of a mashup of sites.  To use this plugin I flag content in Delicious, and then depending on the tags that I give the article, will depend on the category it will end up in on my site.  I also use this for sites that I just know that I want to include all of their stories on my site.  Using FeedWordPress I can just subscribe to their RSS feed, and whenever they post an article, I get it on my site.  Great tool to help keep the content on my site fresh, and a way to keep my readers informed of information they would have to go else where to find..

Thanks

This article explains this problem more, and will give you more information in you are interested.

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