I have installed Light Box Plus. (not sure that is the problem) I am trying to upload images and it hangs at 36% or 62% or whatever and then a red "IO error" message appears.



Additionally...not sure if this is related, but if I want to put up images separately on a page (the customer wants to do this) Extra code gets thrown in between the a href tag and the image tag, so it looks like this on the browser



Wordpress 3.0.1
Lightbox Plus 2.2
Atahualpa 3.4.9

The hanging seems like it would be more related to your host. I just installed Lightbox Plus and had no problems. I am not sure what is causing the extra code but it seems like I have seen something about that on the forum. Have you considered upgrading to Atahualpa 3.5.3 ? (backup db, use manual upgrade, and apply bug fixes). For full instructions see the New Versions and Updating thread.

I am now able to upload, it turned out to be a conflict with Fast Secure Contact Form
However, while I am able to upload, no one else can. It still hangs. I am wondering if Lightbox Plus is fighting with something else. I am at the end of my rope, I have disabled most of the plugins thinking there is a conflict.

I will deactivate and delete it and then reinstall if I must, but that will be a lot of work for something that was not a very expensive website and I am having to do hours of investigative work for nothing

And you host could still be an issue. There are some hosts that just plain don't play well with WordPress especially with regards to timing out.

Actually, my host was my teacher at college and all his sites are Wordpress sites. But thank you very much anyway.

Are you saying your site is hosted on the same host your teacher uses and he has no problems like you are having?