Cant upload .zip files in Edit Page??

  • Hi Team

    We are newbies to WP for our online college website.

    When we go to ‘Edit Page’ ‘Upload Zip’ and browse for a WinRAR or winzip type of file (Compressed (zipped) Folder (.zip) ) & try to upload it, it is always rejected and a message comes up saying:

    [“Please upload zip file”]

    We are confused as to why it wont accept & upload these files, which started as Word docs, then converted to PDF, then ‘archived’ to WinRAR or winzip etc.

    Please help us!

    Brent Havill, IT
    AOC

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  • Hay,

    Are you sure your using WordPress ? that’s not standard WordPress, pages don’t have an option to ‘Upload Zip’ so if your seeing it, its as a result of a plugin.

    Now as to why Plugin X isn’t working as expected, ?!?!? you need to speak to the person who made the plugin.

    Probably not your issue, but related:
    As an aside, WordPress doesn’t allow the upload of .zip and .exe files amongst other to the media library as their considered potentially harmful file types.
    see allowed file types

    However It will accept a zip when installing a plugin or theme, and the list of allowed file types can be altered to allow more typed by a filter.

    Thread Starter Brent Havill

    (@brent-havill)

    Thank you – your answer has been very helpful!!

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