Title: Adding Unrecognized Files to WordPress
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Adding Unrecognized Files to WordPress

 *  Resolved [PositechWP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/positechwp/)
 * (@positechwp)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-unrecognized-files-to-wordpress/)
 * I’m attempting to add DWG and SLDPRT (Solidworks) files to our company’s WordPress
   site. I get the error “Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons.”
 * I know you can go under the Network settings and change the allowed files, but
   it still won’t allow me to upload these types of files. Is there another alternative
   around this to get these files uploaded? Believe me when I say I’ve searched 
   myself for answers, but I wanted to see if anyone had an answer they could give
   at the moment.
 * Any help is appreciated.

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 *  Thread Starter [PositechWP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/positechwp/)
 * (@positechwp)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-unrecognized-files-to-wordpress/#post-6475512)
 * If I have to do it on the server side of things, which it looks like the other
   sites I’ve looked at say to do, I can’t personally do that as I don’t have access
   to the wpconfig.php files. But I’ll let our IT guy do it if it needs to be done
   that way, but I’m wanting to know is there a way for myself to do this.
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-unrecognized-files-to-wordpress/#post-6475543)
 * There’s two ways of doing this.
 * First, you can add new allowed MIME types. This is the first link that I found
   in a qick search, but there’s a lot more info out there. [http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-additional-file-types-to-be-uploaded-in-wordpress/](http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-additional-file-types-to-be-uploaded-in-wordpress/)
 * Second (and what I have done in the past) is best if you can’t do anything with
   the code of the site. You need to create ZIP files containing the CAD, etc files,
   and upload those. ZIP files are allowed, so there’s no problem with those.
 *  Thread Starter [PositechWP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/positechwp/)
 * (@positechwp)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-unrecognized-files-to-wordpress/#post-6475599)
 * So I’ve tried doing the first option, adding to the functions.php in the theme
   editor, and it crashes my site. This isn’t the first time I’ve tried changing
   the functions file in there and have it crash, so I was leery of doing it but
   I did it anyway. Sure enough it crashed.
 * The second option, zip files, do I just add them like normal media files? Because
   wordpress still says it can’t permit them due to security reasons.
 * I’ll eventually get this figured out I just know it! Thank you catacustic for
   your help thus far, it’s a start!
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-unrecognized-files-to-wordpress/#post-6475641)
 * I haven’t had any issues adding ZIP files before, so that does sound strange.
   WordPress by itself does allow ZIP files, so it could be one of your plugins 
   that’s blocking that.
 *  Thread Starter [PositechWP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/positechwp/)
 * (@positechwp)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-unrecognized-files-to-wordpress/#post-6475699)
 * Our company uses the Infoway theme, which I believe is a premium theme, and I
   think if I’ve seen correctly this forum doesn’t do much with the premium themes.
 * But I can’t imagine the theme wouldn’t allow that, I’ll have to look into the
   plugin issue too.
 * I’m trying to get our IT guy to look into this as I don’t have much knowledge
   with this techy side of WordPress.
 * Appreciate the reply back again catacaustic!

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