Title: WebDAV support is causing issues
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# WebDAV support is causing issues

 *  Resolved [mallorydxw-old](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomdxw/)
 * (@tomdxw)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webdav-support-is-causing-issues/)
 * Hi,
 * I see you added support for WebDAV in 2.0.0 so that Microsoft Office users can
   edit documents in place. I’m sure that’s a really useful feature but unfortunately
   this is not working properly for most of our clients (I’m not sure if it’s due
   to interactions with other plugins, or what).
 * It would be really great if you could allow admins to turn that feature off –
   either on a settings page or by defining a constant.
 * Thanks for the great plugin,
    Tom Adams dxw
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-document-revisions/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-document-revisions/)

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 *  [purecreativeuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/purecreativeuk/)
 * (@purecreativeuk)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webdav-support-is-causing-issues/#post-5366060)
 * Did you manage to get a fix for this?
 *  [purecreativeuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/purecreativeuk/)
 * (@purecreativeuk)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webdav-support-is-causing-issues/#post-5366061)
 * I’ve found a filter that was added in Nov 14 which sorts this out.
 * document_revisions_enable_webdav
 * I’m adding into my theme:
 *     ```
       function webdav_return_false(){
           return false;
       }
   
       add_filter('document_revisions_enable_webdav', 'webdav_return_false');
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [mallorydxw-old](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomdxw/)
 * (@tomdxw)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webdav-support-is-causing-issues/#post-5366062)
 * We found a workaround, but thanks for pointing out this filter!
 *  [rlburkey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rlburkey/)
 * (@rlburkey)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webdav-support-is-causing-issues/#post-5366065)
 * Good Morning!
 * That filter doesn’t seemed to have helped, still having issues opening MS Office
   docs, Tomdwx, what was the workaround that you found?
 * Thanks!
    ~R
 *  [purecreativeuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/purecreativeuk/)
 * (@purecreativeuk)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webdav-support-is-causing-issues/#post-5366066)
 * Please see my update at:
 * [https://github.com/benbalter/wp-document-revisions/issues/77](https://github.com/benbalter/wp-document-revisions/issues/77)
 * Ben is looking at dropping the Webdav function for maintainability.

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