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Ok, so now we’re running the new WordPress 3.0. Great. Everything looked fine, until I visited the Media Library. To my surprise all the thumbnail images are gone. All I see is the tiny red x that one usually can observe when an image isn’t at the apropriate URL.
Of course I’ve Googled the “No Images in WordPress 3.0″ Issue right away and found lots of articles. But the fixes they propose just won’t work for me. AND I DON’T KNOW WHY!!!!!!!!
Most fixes treat an Issue you will encounter when you do a WordPress FTP upload into a folder on the root of your server, e.g.: http:/mydomain.com/wordpress. It seems that there is a filter in 3.0 which converts wordpress into WordPress. Thus, of course your old images, uploaded with the media tool, will be stored in mydomain.com/wordpress/1/files/2010/7 and now will be integrated in posts at mydomain.com/WordPress/1/files/2010/7. So, if you’re lucky and did a WP folder upload, you can get a plugin disabling the WP caps filtering here.

Now, If, like me, you’re in the very disappointing situation that you haven’t uploaded WP into a folder on root, meaning your folders structure looks like this:
mydomain.com
- wp-admin
- wp-content
- wp-includes
index.php
and so on, then if you can’t see your images in the media library and/or in the posts, things get more complicated.
I found out that there appears to be some kind of supplemental error in the image upload location re-writing.
I observe the following for the location of images:
Image Location In Post: http://ralfengel.com/files/2009/12/why_comuters_overheat.jpg
Image Location In Media Library: http://ralfengel.com/files//2009/12/why_comuters_overheat.jpg
Now that is weird, where in Matts name does the second / after files come from? And how can I get rid of it?

The Solution:
Use your FTP program, download .htaccess and open it with an editor.
Change your #uploaded files to read the following:

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

Save it, upload it (you may have to rename it since windows may have cut the . from htaccess, so make sure that on the root you see:
.htaccess
now, refresh your blog, media library, and feel the happiness overcome you, as all those lost thought images re-appear like by magic.

So, to recapitulate, here we have the solutions to two different Image (no show) problems with WordPress 3.0.
First, a WordPress 3.0 grammar filtering issue, changing WordPress into WordPress, second, an error in the .htaccess uploaded images location.

I hope this helped you solve your issue, if it hasn’t post a comment here, I’ll have a look at it.

happy blogging

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