{"id":7732,"date":"2022-08-24T13:48:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T13:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=7732"},"modified":"2022-08-24T13:49:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T13:49:58","password":"","slug":"how-to-solve-wordpress-media-file-upload-error","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/help\/how-to-solve-wordpress-media-file-upload-error\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Solve WordPress Media File Upload error?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While doing a WordPress Media File Upload, you get &#8220;Unable to create directory uploads&#8221;, here are some areas to look at to solve the issue<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7730\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-21.39.50-300x98.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-21.39.50-300x98.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-21.39.50-1024x334.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-21.39.50-768x251.png 768w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-21.39.50-1536x501.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-21.39.50.png 1686w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>1. Folder Permission<\/h2>\n<p>Make sure your folder uploads is with permission 755<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>2. Media Path<\/h2>\n<p>From your WordPress Settings, click on Media. Go to the &#8220;Store uploads in this folder&#8221; section, enter the default path into the text field &#8220;wp-content\/uploads&#8221;, and click Save Changes<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-21.43.22-300x163.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-21.43.22-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-21.43.22-768x417.png 768w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-21.43.22.png 872w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>3. Proceed to test<\/h2>\n<p>You are all ready to try to upload a new media.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>CLDY Clients only<\/h2>\n<p>If you face any issue, skip all the manual process, send us an email with the screen shot of the error, and our friendly support team will resolve it for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While doing a WordPress Media File Upload, you get &#8220;Unable to create directory uploads&#8221;, here are some areas to look at to solve the issue &nbsp; 1. Folder Permission Make sure your folder uploads is with permission 755 &nbsp; 2. Media Path From your WordPress Settings, click on Media. Go to the &#8220;Store uploads in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[40],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-7732","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-wordpress-hosting"],"year_month":"2026-07","word_count":119,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"CLDY","author_nicename":"admin2509","author_url":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/author\/admin2509\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"WordPress Hosting","term_url":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/help-category\/wordpress-hosting\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/7732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/7732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7735,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/7732\/revisions\/7735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=7732"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=7732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}