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The site I am currently developing will use a lot of PDF attachments, so I wanted to add PDF filtering to the media manager. I found that extra file type filtering can be added to the media manager using a simple filter hook. Example; Adding PDFs To achieve this we are going to utilise the 'post_mime_types' filter. Within our function we will select the file type using the mime type slug, the slug for PDFs is 'application/pdf' Then we define an array that will contain the text labels for the file type. That's it! Other File Types You can do this with any files that WordPress supports.
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