The ability to upload swf file

[discobot]

Wordpress does not allow upload of swf file.
Why ClassicPress would not allow such a thing
we do not have to look for a third party for that.

someone wants to set banner etc.
Let’s say I have a flash game site

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Read-only archive: https://petitions.classicpress.net/posts/170/the-ability-to-upload-swf-file

Author: JerryNidzo

Vote count: 1

Status: Declined

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Comments

I’m not sure what the security implications are, but Flash usage is down to <5% of sites. Flash is more of an edge-case use, these days. Anyway, you don’t need an outside plugin to enable swf uploads…just add the following to a utility plugin.

// Enable swf upload.
function codepotent_enable_swf_upload($mimes) {
$mimes[‘swf’] = ‘application/x-shockwave-flash’;
return $mimes;
}
add_filter(‘upload_mimes’, ‘codepotent_enable_swf_upload’);

~ posted by Code Potent

AFAIK most browsers will no longer play SWF files anyway. Flash is dead, and I don’t think you’ll have much success persuading a living, breathing CMS to bring it back to life.

~ posted by zigpress

But there are so many site with flash games

Code potent
Where to paste this code

~ posted by JerryNidzo

Flash is dead, and good riddance. Also, it has been a rat’s nest of security, usability, and performance issues over the years.

You are welcome to try to make it work on your site though. You can put the above code snippet in your theme’s functions.php file or a small custom plugin.

See also: https://codepotent.com/create-a-custom-utility-plugin-for-your-classicpress-site/

~ posted by James Nylen

[anon66243189]

I suggest this gets closed, because it is in general a suboptimal thing to add flash to a website in 2021

[azurecurve]

I don’t imagine there will be an appetite to spend time on this.

[james]

I fully agree with declining this petition, but I’ve set this topic to close in 7 days to allow for further comments, as is our standard practice for declining petitions.

[azurecurve]

Fair enough. I’ll remember that for the future.