Post failed due to image type

  • Resolved johndgraham

    (@johndgraham)


    8 months ago

    We’ve recently upgraded our WordPress Plugin from automatic called Modern Image formats and changed our setting from WebP, to AVIV. Search console doesn’t accept AVIV files so our post is failing with this error.

    Post to Google My Business:?There recently has been an issue publishing a post to one of your GMB locations: Failed to create/update post: Request contains an invalid argument. [3]Image format is not supported. Field: photos.additional_photo_urls Value:

    Our original uploads are jpg, so there should an original jpg as well, I’m wondering if there is a way in this plugin to fall back to the jpg if wordpress is trying to output AVIV’s.

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  • Plugin Author Koen Reus

    (@koen12344)

    Hey @johndgraham!

    The plugin currently only supports WebP, not AVIF. GMB itself only allows uploading JPG and PNG images (which is very odd, since WebP is a format developed by Google), so the plugin converts the images from WebP to PNG on the fly when creating a post.

    I’ll check out the source code for that Modern Image formats plugin you provided, and see how it stores the original images. Maybe I can have the plugin pick up the originals and send those to Google!

    ~ Koen

    Plugin Author Koen Reus

    (@koen12344)

    Hey @johndgraham, I’ve just released the 3.1.27 update that adds AVIF support.

    It will check if the original image upload matches the GMB’s requirements, and if not, it will convert the AVIF image instead.

    Update should be available in your WordPress dashboard! Let me know if it solves the issue.

    ~ Koen

    Thread Starter johndgraham

    (@johndgraham)

    Many thanks, that seems to have done the trick.

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