can’t upload/change anything on my site

*smacks forehead* Why didn’t I think to ask about WP version?!?

I just tried Firefox and no luck there, I wish I was more versed in this stuff as I can’t really make sense of “hand code the img link in the post…” I upload the image to the image directory of our site, but the location’s not: https://www.hartandlena.com/wordpress.images/uploads, it’s https://www.hartandlena.com/images/uploads.
A friend, the programmer from my old office set this up for me almost 2 years ago, and most of the time it’s worked beautifully. Maybe I need to update WordPress. I’ll read – carefully ?? this site for instructions about that and hopefully I can handle it, but we’ve got over 1,000 photos on this site so I should perhaps download and save everything first ?? Thanks again!

Well, we’ll be here to help the whole way. But having backups is ALWAYS a good idea, regardless of upgrading.

Regarding the hand coding. If you know the location of the image, all you need to do is insert the proper HTML. Example <img src="hartandlena.com/images/uploads/imagename.jpg" alt="sometitle" />

You can copy and paste that code to your clipboard or somewhere else and just change the name of the image after you upload it. That might get you through until you can upgrade.

Do you mean hand code the location of the image in a separate HTML doc? That I can do…or did you mean hand code the location of the image somewhere within WordPress? I’m not sure where that would be. This is what the “Edit” page looks like for photos (https://hartandlena.com/wordpress/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=117) username=admin, password=******…

Does anyone there do any freelance work? ?? I’ve been reading how many a happy user has upgraded their versions of WordPress, but they still use language unfamiliar to me so I worry I’ll have endless silly questions. If not, I’m happy to give it a whirl. If yes, I’d be happy to provide passwords to my server, etc., and pay by the hour via PayPal, or send an online gift card, whatever’s preferred. Course I don’t know if the version is the gliche, but it certainly can’t hurt to upgrade.

I have been around at the time of 1.2 ??
Even in that version you did NOT need the “custom field” to display an image.
You could upload images in two ways: via FTP and via the Upload panel. Even if you upload the majority of your images via FTP you can try to upload just one through the interface and it will give you the code you need to insert in the post’s body = the text input area. (For the next pic, just change the file name…)

So, sorry, but I have to assume you are doing something wrong while trying to upload and display images.

As for the upgrade: it is always worth to try (if not else, for security reasons) – but I have to warn you. After WP 1.2.x starting with 1.5.x instead of “styles” WP now uses “themes”, which means your site’s layout/style should be converted into a theme if/when you decide about an upgrade.

RE: freelancers. There are quite a lot, but they are not allowed to bid here publicly, so leave a contact address (in the form like “you at domain dot com”) and they will contact you privately.

Thank you for the info about contracting freelance work, I appreciate it. I may end up doing that ?? As for posting photos, the way I’ve been adding photos via FTP to my images folder, than by going into the WordPress “Edit” page and adding the file location to the “Value” field has worked wonderfully for 2 years now. It just stopped working last week, suddenly and for no apparent reason (no upgrades done on my end, etc.) But I’m all ears about how to add them other ways in WordPress 1.2! Yes, I can upload images to the server via the “Upload” button, as you said, But it’s adding photos sequentially for a photo gallery section of the site (see https://hartandlena.com/girls/ and select a “Month”) that the trouble resides. Here’s what that edit page looks like: https://hartandlena.com/wordpress/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=117 (username: admin, password: ****) The photos are uploaded to the server, but suddenly the “Add Custom Field” button doesn’t work…

Hmm, I may not want to upgrade since you mention “themes.” The site is designed already around our custom artwork, etc. I’m hoping to hear back from our server next week too, re. possible php upgrade.

Thanks for helping, it’s much much appreciated!

I’ve moderated the passwords above – not a wise thing to post it publicly.

But I went and checked out the site’s admin.
I know you said nothing was edited… however, it seems you are using the get-custom-meta plugin (or something like that) but I couldn’t find any call, code in your index.php that would display what is in the meta fields.
Even when NOT using the plugin, you need a code snippet (template tag) to display the value of a custom field; and when I checked the plugin’s page at coffee2code, it also says: use this or that code line to display the content of the “meta”.

Seemingly any references to the meta field and/or the plugin has been removed from your index.php. That’s the only thing I could think of seeing the code.

Huh, that’s weird. I checked the index.php file on the server and it hasn’t been moderated since 1/11/05 — all very strange. I didn’t set this up though ( a friend did) so don’t know enough about it so amend it. But, maybe you’re info has provided yet another clue to resolving the puzzle at last, I hope so…back to the server for more digging, and I’ll see what I can find out.

Thanks again! This has certainly been *very* helpful!

I had to tell you right away. I almost didn’t bother, but I tried using our site today – and it worked. Just like the last time it went down for no apparent reason, and made a miraculous recovery. Doing nothing different — just clicking an “Add Custom Field” button after all — and it’s down for one week and back the next. Also weird that it works if as you say our index.php file is missing some info(?) Wish I knew more about that to even know where to look. But I’m really grateful for all the help all of you provided. You’re a great group of people.

Lena