wp-includes/media.php:4354Returns a WP_Image_Editor instance and loads file into it.
$pathstring$argsarrayoptionalarray()WP_Image_Editor|WP_Errorfunction wp_get_image_editor( $path, $args = array() ) { $args['path'] = $path; // If the mime type is not set in args, try to extract and set it from the file. if ( ! isset( $args['mime_type'] ) ) { $file_info = wp_check_filetype( $args['path'] ); /* * If $file_info['type'] is false, then we let the editor attempt to * figure out the file type, rather than forcing a failure based on extension. */ if ( isset( $file_info ) && $file_info['type'] ) { $args['mime_type'] = $file_info['type']; } } // Check and set the output mime type mapped to the input type. if ( isset( $args['mime_type'] ) ) { $output_format = wp_get_image_editor_output_format( $path, $args['mime_type'] ); if ( isset( $output_format[ $args['mime_type'] ] ) ) { $args['output_mime_type'] = $output_format[ $args['mime_type'] ]; } } $implementation = _wp_image_editor_choose( $args ); if ( $implementation ) { $editor = new $implementation( $path ); $loaded = $editor->load(); if ( is_wp_error( $loaded ) ) { return $loaded; } return $editor; } return new WP_Error( 'image_no_editor', __( 'No editor could be selected.' ) );}Introduced in 3.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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