What file types can I upload?
The short answer: photos, business documents and video — the things a visitor might actually look at. Here's the full list, and what to do when a file isn't on it.
What's accepted
| Kind | Types | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Photos & images | JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, AVIF | 10 MB each |
| Documents | PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CSV, plain text, RTF, OpenOffice | 50 MB each |
| Video | MP4, MOV, WebM, M4V | 1 GB per file, 5 GB per site |
Anywhere you can upload — the Library page, the workshop's gallery tab, or an attachment in the chat — takes any mix of these in one go; Upload files and video to my site walks through the three doors.
What's refused, and why
Programs and archives (EXE, ZIP, RAR and friends) — refused for your visitors' safety. If the things you want to share are inside a ZIP, unpack it and upload the files themselves.
Web code as an upload (HTML, JavaScript) — your pages are edited through Bernard, not uploaded around him; that's what keeps every change previewed and approved. Just ask for the change you want.
Audio — not yet. Embed your podcast platform's player instead.
A note on video
Video uploaded this way plays exactly as you filmed it — no captions, no processing. That's right for a homepage clip; for teaching, upload the video on your course page instead, where it also gets captions, a transcript and chapters (Put my own video file into a lesson shows how). And whatever the file, the rule from photos applies to documents too: only upload what's yours to publish — Am I allowed to use this photo? explains how bernard tracks that.
The prompt
“Can I upload a [file type] to my site? If not, what should I do instead?”
The [bracketed] parts are yours to fill in. First time? Connect bernard to your AI over MCP — a one-time setup in bernard → your site → Use your own AI — then paste the prompt above.
Questions people ask
- Can I upload a Word document or a spreadsheet?
- Yes — Word, Excel and PowerPoint files (and their OpenOffice cousins), plus PDF, CSV and plain text. They're stored with your site and linked from any page you choose; placing the link is a draft change you approve before it goes live.
- Why won't it take my ZIP file?
- Archives, programs and web-code files are refused on purpose — a visitor's browser can't safely open them from your site, and they're the classic way something nasty sneaks in. Unpack the archive and upload the files you actually want people to see.
- What about music or a podcast episode?
- Audio files aren't accepted yet. If your episodes live on a podcast platform, Bernard can embed that platform's player on a page instead — and any page change waits for your approval.