Cyriac George

There is no need to say that i was very much excited to upgrade my old worpress to the latest version Wordpress 2.7. But it didnt lasted for long. As i was preparing the previous article Why you should upgrade to Wordpress 2.7 ? i tried to upload few screen captures of the new interface. But then all the excitement went to PANIC.

This is what i got when i tried to upload an image.

wordpress-2_7-image-upload-error

/home/.boogee/cyriac/cyriac.me/wp-content/uploads

So I googled for the solution and i had to research for 3 hours to find a solution. I found the solution from Wordpress Support Forum. As usual all Wordpress upgrades have some problems. Its actual cause is unknown, because only few have this, for others it works just fine.

In that various solutions were given and some claim they work too, but for me the following solution worked.

Solution for the error

Step 1: Log into your admin panel

Step 2: Go to Settings>>Miscellaneous

You will see two options,

1. Store uploads in this folder
2. Full URL path to files

Most probably you will see

/home/.boogee/XXXXX/XXXXXXX/wp-content/uploads

in the first field.

Step 3: Edit that to just

wp-contents/uploads

PS: Please take a backup of what you are editing, incase this trick didnt work, you can restore the old URL.

This should do the trick.

Why I like this solution ?

Other solutions given in the forum were including CHMOD’ing wp-content directory to 777, and everybody who has little “techie” knowledge doesnt like that. Its because CHMOD 777 means, everybody has access to that folder and they can write/read or do what ever they want. Generally this will leave a security hole. Lucky for me, that didnt work too, else I would have to be affraid from a security hack anytime. Lucky for me the other solution worked fine, it doesnt leave any security holes.

So did you guys upgrade your wordpress to the latest version ? Did you guys had this “image upload error” or any other problems? If yes please try this solutions and let me and other know what happened. If you have any other problems, just share it, I will try to find a solution.

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New wordpress (v2.7) is out and I’M LOVIN’ IT. Why, let me tell you about new features and upgrades in the new version of wordpress.

First of all to those guys who are not able to setup a blog yet, wordpress is a blogging platform (i would say the most easy and less complex platform). For you guys I will be giving a series on how to start a blog yourself. So if you dont want to miss that then subscribe to my blog right now. You can do that by entering your email address in the “Subscribe For Free” section in the top-right portion of this page, then click “Subscribe”. Once completed, I guarantee that you wont miss the wonderful tutorial am about to release.

Enough with promotion, lets get down to the features.

1. First thing is the visual appearance. It has been seriously over-hauled.

2. Re-structured the menus and added various new option.

a. Menu navigation is now side navigation .

b. Now its a drop down menu. It saves time by avoiding multiple clicks to reach a particular option. For ex: earlier it would take edit some theme (click Appearance>>Theme Editor), now you just need to drop down Appearance menu and then click directly on the editor.

3. A “Quick Press” box, which is very helpful when you have a great idea and you just need to save it as draft. It saves you from few clicks and does the job fine. Under “Tools” you will get a “Quick Press” button with which you can quickly make a draft of some text you have selected on some site or the URL itself. (I like this option. Very fast and cool)

4. Units in dashboard can be moved around. You can place them according to your like and it will stay like that. I would really like if there was an option using which i can add which all units should appear on the dashboard.

5. Quick edit options in comments/pages/posts- which is really good.

6. Quick comment editing, right from the Dashboard- now that’s cool.

7. A list of recent drafts on dashboard, so that you wont forget about it.

8. Quick Comment-reply right from the comments page itself, no need to go the actual post.

9. Thumbnail preview of images in the media library.

10. New plugin installer from site itself, no need to download/upload anything.

11. Plugin/Theme automatic upgrader. You dont have to download/upload anything. Just click “Upgrade”.

12. Advanced Import/Export options

13. New sticky posts. If you make a post sticky, the site will behave like usual blog, but one article will always remain on the top/front even of you update the blog.

These were the features which i found myself and interesting. There are even more features but it is highly techie which i dont think the public has any interest in.

Now should you upgrade your wordpress ? I would recommend YES. Do it ASAP so that you can enjoy its new features without loosing any more time.

Dont forget to subscribe to my blog and receive updates on when i publish the guide to start a blog yourself.

Am lazy to include pictures individually, so uploading it as a gallery. But check out the tags i have given for each picture.

On 26th November India has seen the worst terrorist attacks that ever occurred to her. Media refers to this as the 9/11 incident of India (American imitation even at the time of an attack !!!). Although i need not describe the incident, I will summarize for those who are new to this story.

Terrorists stormed into various places in Mumbai started open fire and blasting grenades. They split into smaller parties and hijacked Taj Mahal, Oberoi Trident and Nariman House. One party went to Mumbai CST Railway station and started an open fire. Many people died. Police stormed into these places and started counter measures. Many high officials including Hemant Karkare was killed, infact they were targetted. The terrorist who hijacked the hotels succeeded in terrorizing the whole nation for couple of days. NSGs (National Security Guard) were called to scene and they started cleaning the mess. I think 200+ black cats were called to the scene to neutralize just 10 terrorists. Any way after days of battle we won, just 1 or 2 of the terrorists were captured alive, the rest was killed. They managed to kill around 200 people which inlcude Indians, foreigners, police, high officials, commandos and even VIPs.

So thats the story, now lets see what happened. This is the most planned terrorist attack India has ever seen. Officials say there was months of planning behind this attack, and these guys came to Taj to study the grounds. They had even studied the roads, without which it wouldnt be easy for them to reach the CST railway station. It is believed that terrorists came to India using its vast sea shore of Maharashtra. They hijacked a fishing boat and killed the entire crew (in a brutal way) and fooled the coast guard, by making them think that they were Indian fishermen.

Whats so special with attack ? Usually terrorists targets crowded or strategically important places and maximum life loss. But in this case there strategy was a lot different. Their main target was foreigners and the Business capital of India, Mumbai. Till now there was no risk for the rich people. But now that situation has changed. Two kind of people used these hotels, foreign tourists and business men. After this, who will dare to come to Mumbai and stay in those posh hotels ? Nariman House is not a posh hotel, but it is the favorite stay for Israelis in Mumbai. So its clear that the terrorists targeted both business and tourism.

Now that its all over, whats even unfortunate is the damn politicians. They are planning how to exploit this incident to use it to their and their parties’ advantage. Its said that India was warned by US about this attack. If the officials had paid attention to this, and tightened the security, this could have been avoided. Any way I really hope they will take measures to avoid these kind of incidents in the future.

The effect of this attack has already started to show. Hotel bookings are canceled and people are afraid to go to common places like theaters to watch a movie. Stock exchanges are not so energetic. Foreign funds have been withdrawn. I have high hopes for out new Finance Minister, Manmohan Singh, who is a veteran in finance field, will save our economy.

There is a movie which comes to my mind, which in my opinion all of you guys should watch; “A Wednesday“. Its a must watch, because it is also based on a terrorist attack. The climax and its message is simply superb.

I would also like to notify my readers about an ATS helpline number -1090. In case you notice some suspicious, terrorist kind of activity, please dial this toll free number to note the proper authorities.

Please feel free to share your views to other readers through comments. As a starter i will comment in behalf of few others (this was a conversation done in my email inbox.). Others please catch up on the conversation.