Assuming that you are using the WordPress native Media uploader then you can use the upload_mimes filter hook to add or remove allowed file types, for example: function custom_myme_types($mime_types){ //Adding avi extension $mime_types[‘avi’] = ‘video/avi’; //Removing the pdf extension unset($mime_types[‘pdf’]); return $mime_types; } add_filter(‘upload_mimes’, ‘custom_myme_types’, 1, 1); You can see that to add a file … Read more
It turned out to be an .htaccess rule put in by a coworker. It was supposed to target just some .pdf files but the rule wasn’t written strict enough. So that was a fun few hours spent on wild goose chases.
If you look at media_handle_sideload in source, you can see how it works. The function that generates the various sizes is within wp_generate_attachment_metadata, the image_make_intermediate_size function. You could possibly use the wp_handle_sideload function instead and manually resize it via image_make_intermediate_size.
The multisite is using ms-files.php?file=$2 to open uploaded files and at the end of ms-files.php you have // If we made it this far, just serve the file readfile( $file ); So opening a 500mb file could be too much for your php process. You could try to increase the available memory footprint of your … Read more
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Please try to upload the php.ini file to the document root directory or to the same directory as wp-config.php. You may also want to modify memory_limit to 120M and modify max_execution_time to 300.
Try regenerating images for each sizes by using this plugin.
The issue turned out to be the fact that, at least for me, sites can not be “deleted.” once I changed the status of the site the images showed up and started working as they should.
Virtually all the core files and scripts that WordPress uses for displaying the media library are within the wp-admin folder, plus it uses various admin-only hooks, so using this on the front-end is pretty much out of the question. It’s not difficult to allow users to upload to the media library from the front end … Read more
If you look at media_handle_upload in source you’ll see how it uses wp_handle_upload to do just the uploading part of the process without inserting an attachment.