Title: gd_edit_image_support
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: April 28, 2025

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# gd_edit_image_support( string $mime_type ): bool

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/gd_edit_image_support/?output_format=md#description)
    - [See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/gd_edit_image_support/?output_format=md#see-also)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/gd_edit_image_support/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/gd_edit_image_support/?output_format=md#return)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/gd_edit_image_support/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/gd_edit_image_support/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/gd_edit_image_support/?output_format=md#changelog)

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This function has been deprecated since 3.5.0. Use [wp_image_editor_supports()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_image_editor_supports/)
instead.

Check if the installed version of GD supports particular image type

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/gd_edit_image_support/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

### 󠀁[See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/gd_edit_image_support/?output_format=md#see-also)󠁿

 * [wp_image_editor_supports()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_image_editor_supports/)

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/gd_edit_image_support/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$mime_type`stringrequired

## 󠀁[Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/gd_edit_image_support/?output_format=md#return)󠁿

 bool

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/gd_edit_image_support/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    function gd_edit_image_support($mime_type) {
    	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '3.5.0', 'wp_image_editor_supports()' );

    	if ( function_exists('imagetypes') ) {
    		switch( $mime_type ) {
    			case 'image/jpeg':
    				return (imagetypes() & IMG_JPG) != 0;
    			case 'image/png':
    				return (imagetypes() & IMG_PNG) != 0;
    			case 'image/gif':
    				return (imagetypes() & IMG_GIF) != 0;
    			case 'image/webp':
    				return (imagetypes() & IMG_WEBP) != 0;
    			case 'image/avif':
    				return (imagetypes() & IMG_AVIF) != 0;
    			}
    	} else {
    		switch( $mime_type ) {
    			case 'image/jpeg':
    				return function_exists('imagecreatefromjpeg');
    			case 'image/png':
    				return function_exists('imagecreatefrompng');
    			case 'image/gif':
    				return function_exists('imagecreatefromgif');
    			case 'image/webp':
    				return function_exists('imagecreatefromwebp');
    			case 'image/avif':
    				return function_exists('imagecreatefromavif');
    		}
    	}
    	return false;
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/deprecated.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/deprecated.php#L3326)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/deprecated.php#L3326-L3357)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/gd_edit_image_support/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Uses | Description | 
| [_deprecated_function()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/_deprecated_function/)`wp-includes/functions.php` |

Marks a function as deprecated and inform when it has been used.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/gd_edit_image_support/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [3.5.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.5.0/) | Deprecated. Use [wp_image_editor_supports()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_image_editor_supports/)  | 
| [2.9.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.9.0/) | Introduced. |

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