{"id":855,"date":"2024-05-07T11:44:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/docs\/can-i-use-enable-media-replace-with-non-standard-file-extensions\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:41:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:41:47","password":"","slug":"can-i-use-enable-media-replace-with-non-standard-file-extensions","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/can-i-use-enable-media-replace-with-non-standard-file-extensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I use Enable Media Replace with non-standard file extensions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress supports uploading the following file types: <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Uploading_Files\" rel=\"noopener\">Uploading Files \u00ab WordPress Codex<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As long as the file type is supported by WordPress, Enable Media Replace will be able to work as usual. That means that accepting or not accepting non-standard file extensions (for example, a SVG) does not depend on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/plugin\/enable-media-replace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enable Media Replace<\/a>, but on WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, you can always install a plugin like <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-extra-file-types\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WP Extra File Types<\/a>: configure it on your website so you can upload the non-standard extensions you want, and then Enable Media Replace will also be able to replace them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress supports uploading the following file types: Uploading Files \u00ab WordPress Codex As long as the file type is supported by WordPress, Enable Media Replace will be able to work as usual. That means that accepting or not accepting non-standard file extensions (for example, a SVG) does not depend on&nbsp;Enable Media Replace, but on WordPress. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[39],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-855","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-enable-media-replace"],"blocksy_meta":[],"year_month":"2026-05","word_count":95,"total_views":"726","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin_mdli53m5","author_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/author\/admin_mdli53m5\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Enable Media Replace","term_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/category\/enable-media-replace\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/855\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}