wp-includes/class-wp-image-editor-gd.php:90Loads image from $this->file into new GD Resource.
true|WP_Error public function load() { if ( $this->image ) { return true; } if ( ! is_file( $this->file ) && ! preg_match( '|^https?://|', $this->file ) ) { return new WP_Error( 'error_loading_image', __( 'File does not exist?' ), $this->file ); } // Set artificially high because GD uses uncompressed images in memory. wp_raise_memory_limit( 'image' ); $file_contents = @file_get_contents( $this->file ); if ( ! $file_contents ) { return new WP_Error( 'error_loading_image', __( 'File does not exist?' ), $this->file ); } // Handle WebP and AVIF mime types explicitly, falling back to imagecreatefromstring. if ( function_exists( 'imagecreatefromwebp' ) && ( 'image/webp' === wp_get_image_mime( $this->file ) ) ) { $this->image = @imagecreatefromwebp( $this->file ); } elseif ( function_exists( 'imagecreatefromavif' ) && ( 'image/avif' === wp_get_image_mime( $this->file ) ) ) { $this->image = @imagecreatefromavif( $this->file ); } else { $this->image = @imagecreatefromstring( $file_contents ); } if ( ! is_gd_image( $this->image ) ) { return new WP_Error( 'invalid_image', __( 'File is not an image.' ), $this->file ); } $size = wp_getimagesize( $this->file ); if ( ! $size ) { return new WP_Error( 'invalid_image', __( 'Could not read image size.' ), $this->file ); } if ( function_exists( 'imagealphablending' ) && function_exists( 'imagesavealpha' ) ) { imagealphablending( $this->image, false ); imagesavealpha( $this->image, true ); } $this->update_size( $size[0], $size[1] ); $this->mime_type = $size['mime']; return $this->set_quality(); }Introduced in 3.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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