Hi @froglevelmc,
I suspect that Wordfence isn’t involved in this process. Were there actually a problem with uploading the file due to a false-positive or other Wordfence option, I would expect a blocking page to be shown for your IP. The filetype may be PNG but renamed as GIF locally due to your router restriction, or there’s a conversion taking place on your WordPress installation due to a plugin or setting. Naturally, you could copy the file in via FTP/SSH yourself if you have access to the filesystem for your website.
I recommend picking the category closest to this issue in the WordPress.org forums (https://wordpress.org/support/forums/) or if you suspect another plugin is involved they should have a forum available here like ours to see if you can get to the bottom of what’s happening.
Thanks,
Peter.
Peter,
No, there was no problem uploading the file. It just gets converted to a .png from a .gif during the media upload process. Starts out as a .gif file on the local end and once uploaded and in the media library, it’s a .png.
The router just pulls the image from a URL. It doesn’t have the ability to do any image conversion. Not sure if I have shell access but I’ll try to uploaded it manually and post back.
Thanks,
Chris
Hi @froglevelmc,
Wordfence doesn’t convert uploaded/downloaded files as part of its feature set. If you disable the Wordfence plugin temporarily, I would expect to see the same behavior as something else is probably performing actions on these files.
Thanks again,
Peter.
