[wp-testers] Import Limit
Burhan Khalid
burhan.khalid at gmail.com
Sun Mar 23 10:52:36 GMT 2008
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Andrew Ozz <admin at laptoptips.ca> wrote:
>
> Burhan Khalid wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Doug Stewart <zamoose at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 6:12 AM, George Pearce <george at gpearce.co.uk> wrote:
> >> > > Is there a way to increase the import file size limit for wordpress xml
> >> > imports?
> >> > I think it's in the PHP memory limit, most hosts limit you to about 2megs, I
> >> > forget the exact amount.
> >> > However, if you stick the following in the .htaccess file, it should up the
> >> > limiter.
> >> >
> >> > php_value memory_limit 50M
> >> >
> >> > You can change the 50m to whatever you like :) , although if you have a
> >> > shared host, you might want to check it's not against their TOS, but for one
> >> > upload, it should be ok.
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> I don't think that's the issue at play here. WP used to enforce an
> >> upper limit of 7MB on WXR files. I'm assuming it still holds true.
> >
> > So if I change this limit, will it cause any problems? The limit is 8
> > MB, my backup is 9.92 MB.
>
> You can split the xml in chunks between the posts, just paste the header.
After reading the code, I found out that its reading from the
post_max_filesize php settings, so I just increased that and its now
20 MB.
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