{"id":361,"date":"2014-04-29T17:36:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T17:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2014-06-10T15:44:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T15:44:52","slug":"allow-wordpress-upload-flash-swf-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/allow-wordpress-upload-flash-swf-files\/","title":{"rendered":"How to allow WordPress to upload Flash SWF files"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"filetypeerror\"<\/a>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. WordPress generate error like this\u201cSorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons.\u201c when we try to upload Flash SWF\u00a0files in WordPress<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously, we wrote a post to lifted this restriction<\/a>\u00a0in WordPress that allow users to upload file types, however this method don’t work when we added SWF to Upload file types settings in WordPress Multisite\/Network<\/strong>\u00a0without telling WordPress to allow Flash SWF file type first<\/p>\n

Add following code to theme functions.php file to allow Flash SWF uploaded to the site<\/p>\n

\/* allow upload flash *\/\r\nadd_filter('upload_mimes', 'pixert_upload_swf');\r\nfunction pixert_upload_swf($existing_mimes){\r\n$existing_mimes['swf'] = 'text\/swf'; \/\/allow swf files\r\nreturn $existing_mimes;\r\n}\r\n\/* allow upload flash *\/<\/pre>\n
or<\/p>\n
function pixert_allow_swf($mimes) {\r\n\tif ( function_exists( 'current_user_can' ) )\r\n\t\t$unfiltered = $user ? user_can( $user, 'unfiltered_html' ) : current_user_can( 'unfiltered_html' );\r\n\tif ( !empty( $unfiltered ) ) {\r\n\t\t$mimes['swf'] = 'application\/x-shockwave-flash';\r\n\t}\r\n\treturn $mimes;\r\n}\r\nadd_filter('upload_mimes','pixert_allow_swf');<\/pre>\n
After that, we could add SWF to Upload file types settings in WordPress Multisite\/Network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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. WordPress generate error like this\u201cSorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons.\u201c when we try to upload Flash SWF\u00a0files in WordPress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":373,"comment_status":"open","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-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-code-snippet","category-wordpress","tag-code-snippet-2","tag-wordpress-2","tag-wp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/filetypeerror.jpg?fit=645%2C117&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1pvi1-5P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":360,"url":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/wordpress-file-type-permitted-security-reasons\/","url_meta":{"origin":361,"position":0},"title":"WordPress file type is not permitted for security reasons","author":"Pixel Insert \/ Pixert","date":"April 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This article explain little bit about uploading files to WordPress and its error when WordPress don't allow some file types.\u00a0WordPress by default allow users to upload\u00a0following file types Images .jpg .jpeg .png .gif Documents .pdf (Portable Document Format; Adobe Acrobat) .doc, .docx (Microsoft Word Document) .ppt, .pptx, .pps, .ppsx (Microsoft\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "WordPress"","block_context":{"text":"WordPress","link":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/category\/wordpress\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"filetypeerror","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/filetypeerror.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/filetypeerror.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/filetypeerror.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":227,"url":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/mp4-video-cannot-play-on-ipad-ipod-iphone-using-jw-player-shortocode\/","url_meta":{"origin":361,"position":1},"title":"MP4 video cannot play on iPad\/iPod\/iPhone using JW Player shortcode","author":"Pixel Insert \/ Pixert","date":"May 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It seems that this is a bug on JW Player for WordPress plugin We added JW Player or WordPress plugin shortcode with a mp4 video in it, the video plays on Macbooks and PCs, but it shows blank on iPad or iPod or iPhone. 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