{"id":358,"date":"2014-04-17T10:41:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T10:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/?p=358"},"modified":"2014-09-30T03:55:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T03:55:35","slug":"increase-file-upload-size-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/increase-file-upload-size-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase File Upload Size WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

We see this error when we upload a file that bigger\u00a0than upload limit size , the error look like this “exceeds the maximum upload size for this site”<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"fileuploadsize\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The web hosting company may set \u00a0limit to file upload size, fortunately we could workaround this problem and increase file upload size WordPress.<\/p>\n

1. PHP.INI<\/strong><\/p>\n

UPDATE PHP.INI to increase file upload size WordPress<\/p>\n

If we have access to root admin, we could locate where php.ini file is by using phpinfo, just create a file name wherephpini.php, add following code to wherephpini.php and upload it to our root folder in your server<\/p>\n

\r\n<?php phpinfo(); ?>\r\n<\/pre>\n
Open wherephpini.php in the browser, look for\u00a0Configuration File (php.ini) Path .
\n<\/strong>Open php.ini in that configuration path, find and change following constants<\/p>\n
e.g from<\/p>\n
\r\nupload_max_filesize = 2M\r\npost_max_size = 2M<\/pre>\n
to<\/p>\n
upload_max_filesize = 64M\r\npost_max_size = 96M<\/pre>\n
CREATE PHP.INI to increase file upload size WordPress<\/p>\n
If we don’t have root admin and host our site on shared hosting, just create php.ini and add following constants to newly created php.ini. Upload php.ini to wp-admin directory<\/p>\n
upload_max_filesize = 64M\r\npost_max_size = 96M<\/pre>\n
Some web hosting may have different configuration that requires additional constants to make it work<\/p>\n
memory_limit = 128M\r\nupload_max_filesize = 64M\r\npost_max_size = 96M\r\nfile_uploads = On<\/pre>\n
<\/pre>
\n2. htaccess file<\/strong>
\nOpen .htaccess in root folder, you could use Control Panel File Editor or FTP
\nAdd following constant to .htaccess file
\n<pre><\/p>\n
php_value upload_max_filesize 64M\r\nphp_value post_max_size 96M<\/pre>\n
Some web hosting may have different configuration that requires additional constants to make it work<\/p>\n
php_value memory_limit = 128M\r\nphp_value upload_max_filesize = 64M\r\nphp_value post_max_size = 96\r\nphp_value file_uploads = On<\/pre>\n
We could increase Max upload size on WordPress Multisite\/Network after we have increase maximum file upload size with one of methods above<\/p>\n
Go to WP-Admin > My Sites > Network Admin > Settings > Upload Setting, change KB in Max upload file size from 1000 KB to 32000 KB (32MB)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We see this error when we upload a file that bigger\u00a0than upload limit size , the error look like this “exceeds the maximum upload size for this site” The web hosting company may set \u00a0limit to file upload size, fortunately we could workaround this problem and increase file upload size WordPress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,7,44],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-wordpress-2","tag-wp","tag-wp-admin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/fileuploadsize.jpg?fit=649%2C125&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1pvi1-5M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62,"url":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/how-to-disable-phpinfo\/","url_meta":{"origin":358,"position":0},"title":"How to disable phpinfo","author":"Pixel Insert \/ Pixert","date":"March 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The phpinfo() function is a very powerful one, \u00a0you can learn quite a lot about your PHP installation.\u00a0Some server administrators may choose to disable the PHP function phpinfo() for security reasons, because it displays information which can be used to compromise the server that your site is running on. 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