Upload image through URL?

When you link to an external image, WordPress will reference the external URL. media_handle_upload is meant to handle uploaded images that are now living on your server. So unless you’re telling the server to download the image from the external source and save it on your server, media_handle_upload won’t apply. It sounds like you’re building … Read more

Making a parent directory writable by the server

Here is how to change your folder permissions. Login to your ftp Make your wp-content folder 755 (In most FTP programs, this involves right-clicking -> “Permissions”). 755 is owner: read, write and execute permissions; group: read and execute permissions; others: read and execute permissions. Inside wp-content create a new folder called “uploads”, make it 755 … Read more

How to set Media Box form elements default value?

Not sure about the title part, but you should be able to set some defaults for images using update_option(). You can try adding the following to your functions.php to set the default size to large – you should be able to take it back out after it’s been called once so you’re not updating the … Read more