{"id":3477,"date":"2014-01-06T22:22:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T06:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/uploading-sketchup-skp-files-into-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2018-11-03T13:36:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:36:25","slug":"uploading-sketchup-skp-files-into-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/uploading-sketchup-skp-files-into-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Uploading Sketchup (skp) files into WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So, I want to use Ecto (and probably other blog tools, like MarsEdit) to upload Sketchup .skp files, but it was always giving “invalid file type”. I poked around in WordPress, and here is what I modified to make it work:<\/p>\n

Edited wp-includes\/functions.php, and found: get_allowed_mime_types(..) and added this to the list:<\/p>\n

‘skp’ => ‘application\/sketchup’,<\/b><\/p>\n

\n\"Screen<\/p>\n

Then in wp_ext2type() added ‘skp<\/b>‘ to the ‘text’ type mapping:
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\nIt seems that both are required to allow it to work. Geez..it took me forever to figure this out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I want to use Ecto (and probably other blog tools, like MarsEdit) to upload Sketchup .skp files, but it was always giving “invalid file type”. I poked around in WordPress, and here is what… [read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-05-at-10.21.31-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5405,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions\/5405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}