Uploading text files as media files
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I’m trying to help people upload transcripts with their blog posts. As such it’d be really nice if they could upload text files through the media uploader. It looks like that’s being explicetly blocked by wordpress however.
Is there a better way to be uploading transcripts or is there a way to get around this strange .txt adversion without using third party hosting?
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Hi Jess,
.txt doesn’t appear to be an allowable extension:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/accepted-filetypes/Are the users able to compress the .txt files into .zip folders? If so, .zip is allowed if you have Space Upgrade.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/space-upgrade/You could also try embedding the transcripts with Scribd:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/scribd/Hope this helps!
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Hi there,
I’m simply posting to expand on what has already been posted above. if you want to embed the document itself, you will have to use a third party application like Scribd or Google Docs. Otherwise, the documents will appear as a download link.
See here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/uploading-documents/ -
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Hi, thank you for the fast replies. My goal is to have a download link from the blog text to the .txt file containing the transcript.
The users could compress it to .zip, but then search engines wouldn’t index based on the transcript and it’d be more difficult for people accessing their content.
I’ll look into scribd, though optimially I’d love to see a .mp3 and .txt (transcript) in the rss feed seeing as that’s really the meat of their posts.
Out of curiousity why isn’t .txt a supported extension? It seems like it would be the easiest to impliemnt and has far fewer security concerns than any of the other extensions you do support.
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