WordPress blocking .srt and .bif files

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Youmediatv asked 5 years ago

Seems that wordpress blocks the .srt and .bif extensions on uploads.

How do you get around this?

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Rob Staff answered 5 years ago

Excellent! Thanks for letting me know. It looks like an issue with 1.8. I’m working on 2.0 now and will fix the bug.

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Youmediatv answered 5 years ago

Ok after doing some digging I found that you can manually add the two mime types to your theme’s function.php

This worked for the .srt extension but not for the .bif

So I installed a plugin that lets you manually add mime types "WP Add Mime Types" and added this line to it and hit update.

bif = image/x-bif

Now both .srt and .bif files are accepted by wordpress.