Syed Balkhi

Jared Atchison

Slava Abakumov

Sanjeev Aryal

kkarpieszuk

kaggdesign

WPForms

<h3>WordPress File Upload Types Plugin</h3>
<p>Do you want to let your WordPress website accept uploads from your users for more file types and to freely upload files? We created the File Upload Types plugin to make it simple for anyone to easily add support for any file types with any extension or MIME type.</p>
<h4>How WordPress File Uploads Work</h4>
<p>By default, WordPress only allows <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Uploading_Files#About_Uploading_Files_on_Dashboard" rel="nofollow ugc">certain file types</a> to be uploaded to your website’s media library.</p>
<p>If someone tries to upload a file type outside of these whitelisted WordPress file extensions, this can be the cause of the <a href="https://www.wpbeginner.com/common-wordpress-errors-and-how-to-fix-them/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=fileuploadtyes&utm_content=readme" title="common WordPress error" rel="friend nofollow ugc">common WordPress error</a> <code>Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons</code> message.</p>
<p>It can be frustrating if you’ve <a href="https://wpforms.com/how-to-create-a-file-upload-form-in-wordpress/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=fileuploadtypes&utm_content=readme" rel="friend" title="
created a file upload form">created a file upload form</a> in WordPress but the file type you want to accept is a file extension that’s not allowed.</p>
<p>This plugin lets your website upload more file types beyond the limited file extension types that WordPress allows by default.</p>
<h4>How does the File Upload Types plugin work?</h4>
<p>The File Upload Types plugin works by letting you adjust the internal file whitelist, letting you manually control which types of file extensions your WordPress website can upload.</p>
<p>This way, you can accept any file type through your website and/or any contact form plugin like <a href="https://www.wpforms.com/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=fileuploadtypes&utm_content=readme" title="WPForms" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WPForms</a>.</p>
<h4>What file types can I upload to WordPress with this plugin?</h4>
<p>The File Upload Types plugin lets you allow uploads of any file extension, including custom file types.</p>
<p>Some common file extension types this plugin lets you add that WordPress doesn’t support natively include:</p>
<p>.ai<br />
.zip<br />
.xml<br />
.svg<br />
.csv<br />
.mobi<br />
.cad<br />
.dwg<br />
.dxf</p>
<p>…and any other file extensions that exist, including custom file types.</p>
<p>We hope that you find the File Upload Types plugin helpful!</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>This plugin was created by the team behind <a href="https://wpforms.com/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=fileuploadtyes&utm_content=readme" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WPForms</a> – the best drag & drop form builder for WordPress.</p>
<h3>What’s Next</h3>
<p>If you like this plugin, then consider checking out our other projects:</p>
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<p>Visit <a href="http://www.wpbeginner.com/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=fileuploadtyes&utm_content=readme" title="WPBeginner" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WPBeginner</a> to learn from our <a href="http://www.wpbeginner.com/category/wp-tutorials/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=fileuploadtyes&utm_content=readme" title="WordPress Tutorials" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WordPress tutorials</a> and find out about other <a href="http://www.wpbeginner.com/category/plugins/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=fileuploadtyes&utm_content=readme" title="Best WordPress plugins" rel="friend nofollow ugc">best WordPress plugins</a>.</p>


File Upload Types by WPForms

I got it to allow ePub uploads easy. I just had to get the mine type right, which I bet can sometimes be a bit tricky and texhnical. But the plugin dies it’s best to make that as simple as possible.

Thanks!

Worked great

Easily allow WordPress to accept and upload any file type extension or MIME type, including custom file types.

10up

Jeffrey Paul

Daryll Doyle

<p>Safe SVG is the best way to Allow SVG Uploads in WordPress!</p>
<p>It gives you the ability to allow SVG uploads whilst making sure that they’re sanitized to stop SVG/XML vulnerabilities affecting your site.  It also gives you the ability to preview your uploaded SVGs in the media library in all views.</p>
<h4>Current Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Sanitised SVGs</strong> – Don’t open up security holes in your WordPress site by allowing uploads of unsanitised files.</li>
<li><strong>SVGO Optimisation</strong> – Runs your SVGs through the SVGO tool on upload to save you space. This feature is disabled by default but can be enabled by adding the following code: <code>add_filter( 'safe_svg_optimizer_enabled', '__return_true' );</code></li>
<li><strong>View SVGs in the Media Library</strong> – Gone are the days of guessing which SVG is the correct one, we’ll enable SVG previews in the WordPress media library.</li>
<li><strong>Choose Who Can Upload</strong> – Restrict SVG uploads to certain users on your WordPress site or allow anyone to upload.</li>
</ul>
<p>Initially a proof of concept for <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24251" rel="nofollow ugc">#24251</a>.</p>
<p>SVG Sanitization is done through the following library: <a href="https://github.com/darylldoyle/svg-sanitizer" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/darylldoyle/svg-sanitizer</a>.</p>
<p>SVG Optimization is done through the following library: <a href="https://github.com/svg/svgo" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/svg/svgo</a>.</p>


Safe SVG

Our agency has a talented illustrator who is adept at creating SVGs, particularly with self-contained CSS animations. We would be loading them all manually from the theme folder with no path to easily add new or replace existing SVGs without developer involvement if it weren't for this plugin. We install Safe SVG on pretty much all sites we custom build for our clients.

I'm really hoping for some additional features to come to this plugin to better support the Gutenberg editor, since the core image block doesn't handle SVGs well. But that doesn't affect my 5-star review as the most reliable SVG upload plugin.

Agency go-to for SVG uploads

Why Automattic hates SVG has always been a source of confusion to me. Why shouldn't uploading SVG be as easy and straightforward as any other kind of (supported) image? Then again, it's true that you can write malicious code inside a SVG rather easily. The solution? Safe SVG. It cleans up a malformed or malicious SVG during the upload, so that when it arrives in your Media Library, it will already have been sanitised.

The plugin is as simple to operate as it is useful. All parts of WP that require opening the Media Library browser will now accept SVGs as well. As others have remarked, there are some outstanding issues when previewing SVGs inside Gutenberg. No surprises there — this plugin has predated Gutenberg, and (at the time of writing) has been abandoned for about two years, during which Automattic has been eagerly upgrading WordPress.

The author has not gone away, though. He is still actively developing the sanitising part of the plugin, using a library he has developed and posted on GitHub, and which has accepted several contributions and gone through many code reviews. It's possibly the reference library for SVG sanitation written in PHP.

And fortunately he's now back and has released a brand new version as of late February 2022 :)

Incredibly useful!

Great plugin, does what it says. Should be core functionality.

Why is this not a part of core?


Great plugin! very usefull, but please can you add the possibility to add an inline SVG on the block pasting svg code?



Thanks!


Wonderful + fetaure request

Enable SVG uploads and sanitize them to stop XML/SVG vulnerabilities in your WordPress website.

File Upload Types by WPForms vs Safe SVG