Error When Uploading PDF

Sorry, forgot to mention I’m using Firefox 19.0.2

What version of Frontend Uploader do you use?

I’m on Version 0.5.

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Great, thanks for the quick update!

The only other error is now when I try to upload the pdf, it says it’s not an allowed file type, even though I have .pdf checked under the Settings. Do also need to notate it under allowed categories?

No it should work as is,

However, with mime-types it sometimes can be difficult. Can you try to upload and doc or docx files and see if they go through?

Also, check the faq section, there’s some explanation why this might happen

I received the same error for the doc file. I’ll also check the faq section in the meantime.

As a test, I also tried a psd file and received the same error. Also, when I tried updating the functions.php (using the Twenty Twelve theme) with the code from the faq, I received the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/content/24/10812624/html/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve/functions.php on line 455

Oh example is missing trailing semicolon

add_filter( 'fu_is_debug', '__return_true' );

Try this and see what mime-type is causing troubles. Are you trying it locally or on the server?

Ok, I entered that from the Network Admin Dashboard. Odd thing is, whether or not I add a semicolon at the end, I still receive the syntax error. My apologies in advance, I’m not too familiar with php!

No worries!

Hmm, the corrected version is perfectly valid and should not produce parse errors. Can you post the surrounding lines of where you pasted it?

I pasted it at the very end of functions.php, right after

add_action( ‘customize_preview_init’, ‘twentytwelve_customize_preview_js’ );

Just tested another pdf and no dice.

Now here’s the crazy thing- whenever I try going into the site dashboard, even after I removed and reinstalled the Twenty Twelve theme, I keep getting that Parse error.

That’s weird. It should either break everywhere (like it happened to you when you first trying pasting that line) or work everywhere. Try to delete the folder with twentytwelve and re-upload again.

Ok, I deleted the folder, re-uploaded, cleared cache on browser, logged out and logged back in, still getting error when trying to open site dashboard (I’m on a WPMU setup by the way). However, if I visit the site and click on Edit, I can still get into the dashboard from there, just not from the “Dashboard” link itself.

In regards to receiving errors when trying to upload the pdf and psd files, is there any other code (or a better place in functions.php) I should enter aside from

add_filter( ‘fu_allowed_mime_types’, ‘my_fu_allowed_mime_types’ );

?