Title: Allow Webp image
Author: ravi Singh
Published: <strong>September 5, 2020</strong>
Last modified: January 31, 2022

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Allow Webp image

 By [ravi Singh](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ravisinghit/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/allow-webp-image.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/allow-webp-image/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/allow-webp-image/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/allow-webp-image/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/allow-webp-image/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/allow-webp-image/)

## Description

Generally WordPress doesn’t allow the .webp format for WordPress media and gives
an error, to solve that error you need this plugin. Simply activate this plugin 
and you are ready to upload webp image. To speed up website you need to add webp
images to to your Website.

Simple plugin, there is no unnecesary code and its very light Plugin.

## Installation

Simply install plugin and it allow image upload.

Offline or Manually
 1. Simply Install plugin from WordPress.org 2. Upload `/wp-
content/plugins/` directory 3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in
WordPress

## FAQ

Available upto WordPress 5.9

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/bc85fbde477d72cf27577d176c983d4d0a42ead273a083c4d95f6a0fc01c81b6?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Works well for me.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-well-for-me-89/)󠁿

 [supersonicmonkeyx](https://profiles.wordpress.org/supersonicmonkeyx/) April 3,
2023

The addon allows me to upload .webp images to an older version of Wordpress that
I use. So, for me, it works perfectly. Thanks!

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1df106413fec1bed8139a444c2e096b41b05b050a21951b0f73df5cc91f0fec6?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Works Perfect, Thanks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-perfect-thanks-3/)󠁿

 [jdowling16](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jdowling16/) June 28, 2022

Having seen a few reviews of it not working, I just thought I’d thank you and say
it does for me. Appreciate it!

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Unfortunatelly, doesn`t work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unfortunatelly-doesnt-work/)󠁿

 [gorodsb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gorodsb/) March 25, 2022

Wordpress 5.9.2, Woocommerce 6.3.1. By importing products via Import an error: “
Invalid image: Sorry, you are not allowed to download this type of file” appears.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[does not work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-work-1419/)󠁿

 [timmyturner](https://profiles.wordpress.org/timmyturner/) March 24, 2022

sorry for the low rate but it does not work

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[No funcionó](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-funciono-2/)󠁿

 [Grafiweb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpgrafiweb/) January 14, 2022 2 replies

Lo instalé y no funcionó, sigo sin poder subir webp

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d3615028a7214e9cbd248eee3572301fe6b60843c8cbffc4b07f4562a1204190?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[I love This Plugin <3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-love-this-plugin-3-3/)󠁿

 [bobbycash](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bobbycash/) September 28, 2021

Thanks for creating this very useful plugin for putting non-gif images 🙂

 [ Read all 13 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/allow-webp-image/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Allow Webp image” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ ravi Singh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ravisinghit/)

“Allow Webp image” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/allow-webp-image/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Allow Webp image” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/allow-webp-image)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/allow-webp-image/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/allow-webp-image/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/allow-webp-image/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/allow-webp-image/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

1.0
 1.1

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.1**
 *  Last updated **4 years ago**
 *  Active installations **6,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.9.13**
 *  PHP version ** 5.8 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/allow-webp-image/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/allow-webp-image/),
   [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/allow-webp-image/), and [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/allow-webp-image/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/allow-webp-image)
 * Tag
 * [webp](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/webp/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/allow-webp-image/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3.7 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  8 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/allow-webp-image/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/allow-webp-image/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/allow-webp-image/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/allow-webp-image/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  4 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/allow-webp-image/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/allow-webp-image/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/allow-webp-image/reviews/)

## Contributors

 *   [ ravi Singh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ravisinghit/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/allow-webp-image/)

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