Unable to upload SVGs to WordPress
Written by Erick Olivares
By default, WordPress doesn’t let you upload SVG images. It’s a common problem web editor to upload high-resolution images onto their websites. Recently WordPress made modifications which made it more difficult to upload SVG’s.
In your functions.php file try adding this snippet of code.
function my_own_mime_types( $mimes ) {
$mimes['svg'] = 'image/svg+xml';
return $mimes;
}
add_filter( 'upload_mimes', 'my_own_mime_types' );
After WordPress 4.7 or 4.8 this code might not be sufficient. Try sanitizing your SVG file– we thought something was wrong with the code above, but sanitizing the SVG proved to be the missing step.
