How To Upload APK file In WordPress

How To Upload APK file In WordPress ,.WordPress allows you to only upload the most commonly used file types. Trying to upload an .apk file to your WordPress post? Getting: Sorry, This file type is not allowed. Please try another.

How To Allow Upload Of APK Files In CMS WordPress

we will show you how to add additional file types to be uploaded in WordPress. WordPress allows you to upload most common image files, audio/ video, PDF, Microsoft office and OpenOffice documents.

add this code in your theme’s functions.php

• go to theme – Open the functions.php file of the theme you are using, located in:
  wp-content/themes/xxx-your-selected-theme-xxx/functions.php
• And add this lines of code:

add_filter('upload_mimes', 'acp_custom_mimes');

function acp_custom_mimes ( $existing_mimes=array() ) {
// ' with mime type '<code>application/vnd.android.package-archive</code>'
$existing_mimes['apk'] = '<code>application/vnd.android.package-archive</code>';
return $existing_mimes;
}

you just have to add additional lines of code like: wordpress allowed file types

.au	audio/basic
.avi	video/msvideo, video/avi, video/x-msvideo
.bmp	image/bmp
.bz2	application/x-bzip2
.css	text/css
.dtd	application/xml-dtd
.doc	application/msword
.docx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
.dotx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template
.es	application/ecmascript
.exe	application/octet-stream
.gif	image/gif
.gz	application/x-gzip
.hqx	application/mac-binhex40
.html	text/html
.jar	application/java-archive
.jpg	image/jpeg
.js	application/x-javascript
.midi	audio/x-midi
.mp3	audio/mpeg
.mpeg	video/mpeg
.ogg	audio/vorbis, application/ogg
.pdf	application/pdf
.pl	application/x-perl
.png	image/png
.potx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template
.ppsx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow
.ppt	application/vnd.ms-powerpointtd>
.pptx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
.ps	application/postscript
.qt	video/quicktime
.ra	audio/x-pn-realaudio, audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
.ram	audio/x-pn-realaudio, audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
.rdf	application/rdf, application/rdf+xml
.rtf	application/rtf
.sgml	text/sgml
.sit	application/x-stuffit
.sldx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slide
.svg	image/svg+xml
.swf	application/x-shockwave-flash
.tar.gz	application/x-tar
.tgz	application/x-tar
.tiff	image/tiff
.tsv	text/tab-separated-values
.txt	text/plain
.wav	audio/wav, audio/x-wav
.xlam	application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroEnabled.12
.xls	application/vnd.ms-excel
.xlsb	application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12
.xlsx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
.xltx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.template
.xml	application/xml
.zip	application/zip, application/x-compressed-zip

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