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I recently updated my WordPress version to 3.5.1 and noticed an issue with all images linking to an attachment page by default instead of the image file. This is a known bug with WordPress where the link=”file” is not being added in the gallery shortcode, despite the Link To being set to Media. (see http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/23298#no1)

There is however a work around, you can edit the media.php file to permanently link images to their original file and never use an attachment page although when you next update WordPress, the changes will be lost so make a note just incase (hopefully they would have fixed this issue by then anyway!).

Details
WP Version: 3.5.1
File: wp-includes/media.php
Line: 780
Code: $link = isset($attr[‘link’]) && ‘file’ == $attr[‘link’] ? wp_get_attachment_link($id, $size, false, false) : wp_get_attachment_link($id, $size, false, false);

Sometimes I find an issue when uploading files or images to WordPress via the admin area. It may say; “the uploaded file could not be moved to…” or “HTTP error”, I have narrowed this down to 3 potential possibilities:

• If you have added a custom permalink you may need to add the following code to the .htaccess file in the root:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> <IfModule mod_security.c> SecFilterEngine Off SecFilterScanPOST Off </IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> <IfModule mod_security.c> SecFilterEngine Off SecFilterScanPOST Off </IfModule>

• File permissions may need changing on the FTP, you can do this by right clicking and choosing ‘Set Permissions’ on the folder in remote view.
• If the website was moved from the Localhost to the live web server, the paths may need changing in the database via phpmyadmin.
• Website has run out of disk space or bandwidth.

Please remember that these are only solutions for problems that I have come across and hopefully will work for you as well.

I find it is good practice to make notes on common issues that you come across in WordPress. This will save time in the future when trying to remember what you did before to fix that problem. I have compiled a list of my design notes in this blog (coming soon) to assist with WordPress development. Any other ideas I have left out, feel free to let me know.