[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #4615: Allow more open document
formats
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#4615: Allow more open document formats
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Reporter: nbachiyski | Owner: anonymous
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 2.3 (trunk)
Component: Administration | Version:
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Comment (by Otto42):
Replying to [comment:7 westi]:
> I don't think this is something to move to pluggable.php. It is quite
feasible that multiple plugins may want to extend the list of available
mime types when extending WordPress and using pluggable.php means that the
first one wins.
>
> Adding new filetypes is easy - you only need to install a plugin that
provides a UI for you to do this and you are done -
http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/mime-config/
Adding new filetypes is indeed easy, but changing the way that it detects
filetypes in the first place is not. What if I don't want to use the
extension only? What if I want to use the "magic" methods to detect the
type of file? This should be pluggable so that plugins can change the
entire method, not just add new filetypes.
Leave the filter in there as it is, and then plugins can continue to add
mime types that way, but if a plugin wants to change the whole thing, then
it will be able to do so if the function is pluggable.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4615#comment:8>
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