{"id":127,"date":"2011-07-22T06:18:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T06:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2011-08-11T05:59:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T05:59:16","slug":"wordpress-sorry-this-file-type-is-not-permitted-for-security-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/wordpress-sorry-this-file-type-is-not-permitted-for-security-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress: Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Add the following code snippet to functions.php. Change ‘filetype’ to the file type that is not permitted for security reasons<\/p>\n

\r\nadd_filter('upload_mimes', 'custom_upload_mimes');\r\n\r\nfunction custom_upload_mimes ( $existing_mimes=array() ) {\r\n\r\n\t\/\/ add the file extension to the array\r\n\r\n\t$existing_mimes['filetype'] = 'mime\/type';\r\n\r\n        \/\/ call the modified list of extensions\r\n\r\n\treturn $existing_mimes;\r\n\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Add the following code snippet to functions.php. Change ‘filetype’ to the file type that is not permitted for security reasons add_filter(‘upload_mimes’, ‘custom_upload_mimes’); function custom_upload_mimes ( $existing_mimes=array() ) { \/\/ add the file extension to the array $existing_mimes[’filetype’] = ‘mime\/type’; \/\/ call the modified list of extensions return $existing_mimes; }<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,5],"tags":[55,6,7],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code-snippet","category-wordpress","tag-code-snippet-2","tag-wordpress-2","tag-wp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1pvi1-23","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":361,"url":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/allow-wordpress-upload-flash-swf-files\/","url_meta":{"origin":127,"position":0},"title":"How to allow WordPress to upload Flash SWF files","author":"Pixel Insert \/ Pixert","date":"April 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Some banner ads still use Flash SWF\u00a0format, unfortunately Flash SWF\u00a0is one of few format that has not been permitted in WordPress for security reason. 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