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This problem had me stumped for a couple of days until I determined the problem. I could upload images correctly, but I could not insert them into a blog post. After clicking on ‘Insert Into Post’ all I would get is a white screen with a close button. There were no error messages, and after closing the white box I would be back at the post, but without the image. I read about others having similar problems and tried various solutions that did not work.

These included:

• closing other open tabs in the browser
• clearing out browser cache
• clearing the link URL field
• making sure I was posting with an account that had ‘editor’ permissions
• disabling WordPress plugins
• made sure I had the latest Flash version (I am using Flash 10 debug version)
• added an .htaccess file to my wp-admin folder with this code:
  <IfModule mod_security.c>
  SecFilterEngine Off
  SecFilterScanPOST Off
  </IfModule>

None of this worked, but I finally found the correct solution for my problem here.

All I had to do is log in as an administrator, go to ‘General Settings’ and change the URLs for ‘WordPress address’ and ‘Blog address’ to all lowercase. I had used some uppercase letters in those URLs and apparently that was enough to break the image uploader.