VTT Files in Attachment Search

Hi John,

I had to take a look at the source code for this, the mime type is indeed not registered between the allowed ones.

However, there is still a way to get it working, as VTT files are simple subtitle txt files:

add_filter('asp_index_file_custom_parse', 'asp_index_file_custom_parse_vtt', 10, 2);
function asp_index_file_custom_parse_vtt($text, $post) {
	if ( $post->post_mime_type == 'text/vtt' ) {
		return file_get_contents(get_attached_file( $post->ID ));
	}
	return '';
}

Try adding this code via the Code Snippets plugin or to the functions.php file in your theme/child theme directory – make sure to have a full server back-up first for safety. For more details you can check the safe coding guidelines.

After adding this code, create a new index and the VTT file contents should be indexed as well.

I just tested but it seemed to work okay on my end.

If you haven’t, then can you please try to add text/vtt to the index list and create new index?
If no luck, then can you add temporary back-end and SFTP access? I will try do debug manually.

Oh, the file may be parsed very well, the code just does not include that part, try this:

add_filter('asp_index_file_custom_parse', 'asp_index_file_custom_parse_vtt', 10, 2);
function asp_index_file_custom_parse_vtt($text, $post) {
	if ( $post->post_mime_type == 'text/vtt' ) {
		$content = file_get_contents(get_attached_file( $post->ID ));
		update_post_meta($post->ID, '_asp_attachment_text', $content);
		return $content;
	}
	return '';
}

If all goes well, then after indexing it should show the file contents.

Great 🙂

I have also made a feature request which I already resolved, so from the upcoming release the text/vtt type is going to be supported by default.

If you don’t mind, I will close this topic soon and mark it as resolved, feel free to open another one if you have other questions or issues.

If you like the plugin and have not rated already, feel free to leave a rating on your codecanyon downloads page and on the wordpress plugin repository, it’s greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much 🙂