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Why Can’t I Browse For Images with WSIWIG Editor?

February 10, 2010

I have been having an extremely frustrating problem. The reason it is most frustrating is because it is the second time I am having this problem!  I have already had it, solved it and then forgotten about it and now I am having it again!

This is the reason I started to write this blog – because there has to be somewhere for me to store my solutions so that I may refer back to them next time I need them. There is ALWAYS a next time! Especially with a memory like mine.

So my problem is that when I am using the WSISIG editor inside some content, like the blog or a page, I cannot get the ‘insert image’ to show a browse button.  I shall demonstrate with screenshots…

See here is what I get…

…and this is what I want.

Now the solution – as I have just re-remembered, is very simple and is explained here on this blog.

Basically it all centers around the module called IMCE Bridge, which I have installed on my website but was not installed for my parents site.

So what you have to do is make sure that you have downloaded and installed the IMCE Bridge module in the usual way (that is to put it in the modules folder where all the other modules are) and then go to admin/build/modules and tick IMCE Wsiwig API Bridge module so that it is turned on. The next thing to do is to go to admin/users/permissions and make sure that users are able to attach images (if you are allowing others apart from yourself to write a blog for example) Now go to admin/settings/wsiwig and edit the full html input format. Go into buttons and plugins and make sure that both image and IMCE are ticked.  Now you should have a browse button in the image attach.  Yay.

I am now working on my parents site and have just managed to get MAMP to work for two websites so will do a blog post about that soon.