Thanks Ray! Will ask Chris and Boone about this plug in as it could be a good option as well! Thanks!

Thank you, Ray! I’ll let you know how it goes when Chris has a chance to implement your instructions.

Just one question: You wrote “Besides adding the latex and ltx file extensions…”

The LaTeX files I have are .tex file extension. Are we supposed to add tex and ltx?

Thanks!

Thanks Ray, that points me in the (well several) right direction(s).

Hi Troy,

This is a bbPress issue when people copy and paste from other pieces of content into the Visual Editor.

You’ll have to open up the restrictions bbPress places on other HTML tags like , etc. The alternative is stripping those elements during pasting.

See:
– https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/strip-html-tabs-from-forum/
-…[Read more]

Hi Ryan,

You could give this plugin a shot:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-add-mime-types/

I haven’t tested it though, but looks like it should work.

And then just after posting this an example came through from this forum in this thread:

https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/how-to-add-an-allowed-file-type/#post-8826

Possible it is related to the attributes in the html tags.

Thanks so much Ray! This is super helpful, as I was wondering how much ability one has to make those inputs themselves here versus reaching out to the DEV team to do it, or discovering an existing plug-in that converts things. Thank you!

Hi Syelle and Ryan,

Besides adding the latex and ltx file extensions to the uploaded file types, you also need to register the mime type for the file type with WordPress.

You can do this with the following snippet in /wp-content/mu-plugins/:

/**
* Add custom items to mime type array for uploads
*/
function my_mime_types( $types )…[Read more]

Im digging into this and will be back in touch soon with info – in the meantime, did you already clear the web browser cache on your browser and also reboot the machine? The Wordpress media library will reject uploads from cached pages. Its always worth a try. 🙂

Our allowed file types are:
<p data-pm-slice=”1 1 []”>jpg jpeg png gif mov avi mpg 3gp 3g2 midi mid pdf doc ppt odt pptx docx pps ppsx xls xlsx key mp3 ogg m4a wav mp4 m4v webm ogv flv svg</p>
<p data-pm-slice=”1 1 []”>I know that CityTech’s OL allows tex files, for example, though I don’t know if they use the plugin you mention…</p>
<p…[Read more]

OK, by default the WP media library only allows a few file format types (for security purposes) the most common are –

• Images like .png, .gif, .jpg
• Documents such as .doc, .xls, .ppt, .pdf
• Audio like .wav, .mp3, .mp4
• Video like .mpg, .mov, .wmv

Im thinking, in the past you used a plug-in to add the LaTeX file or the plug-in converted it,…[Read more]

Thanks, Ryan! Yes, I’ve tested with this file before, successfully, but years ago. Let us know what you think!

Hi Syelle! Thanks for posting this, can you attach the LaTeX file here,

Have you posted this file formant in the past with out issues?

Thanks!

Ryan

Hi Mary,

Glad to hear it, and thanks for letting us know!

Bree 🙂

Hi Bree,

Thanks for checking about this. We were able to resolve the issue!

-Mary

Mary Isbell, Ph.D.
(She/Her/Hers)
Director of First-Year Writing
Associate Professor of English
University of New Haven
300 Boston Post Road
West Haven, CT 06516
(203) 932-1140

Thanks, Syelle.

The only thing that comes to mind is whether you also have Google Doc Embedder plugin installed, in addition to the PDF embedder? And if so, is it activated on this site? We did have some issues with that plugin on the OpenLab, and ended up retiring it.

Otherwise, I’m afraid I don’t have any suggestions beyond what it sounds like…[Read more]

Got it, thanks!