Unable to create directory /home/twilitem/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/01. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

I manage quite a few WordPress installations on a variety of servers and I have not seen this error message before. Of course I went looking for an answer and after a couple of hours of trying things I found something that worked. Here are some suggestions:

1. In Settings/Media look for the upload area. This can be one of a number of things:

a. wp-content/uploads

b. something like /home/”your user name”/public_html/wp-content/uploads

c. http://www.yourdomain/wp-content/uploads

Try changing the command.

2. If you can ftp to your domain go to the wp-content and uploads directories and make sure they are chmod 755. Changing them to anything else, as some sites suggest, can be a security risk.

3. The fix that worked for me was to edit the wp-config.php file and add:
define(‘UPLOADS’,'wp-content/uploads’);
just before:
require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’);

None of my other installations have this line but for one site in particular this fix worked.

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You can protect yourself from most of these trackers with a few simple actions. First, set your browser to only accept cookies from the originating computer, ie, disallow third party cookies.

Second, set your browser to delete cookies when you close the browser or at the very least manually delete all cookies on a regular basis.

Trackers include Flash beacons and these must be deleted manually. Other trackers such as beacons aren’t persistent.