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Documentation/Product Import Export Plugin for WooCommerce/Increasing File Upload Size in WordPress – WooCommerce Product Import Export

Increasing File Upload Size in WordPress – WooCommerce Product Import Export

Last updated on April 13, 2022

Uploading a file that exceeds the maximum file upload limit fails to upload and create an error. The maximum file upload limit depends on the hosting and the package that you are using. The maximum upload size can vary from 2 MB to 150 MB. Clearly, the maximum upload size of 2 MB is very low and is not sufficient for most of the time.

How to check the maximum upload file size

To check the maximum upload file size, go to Media > Add New to your WordPress website. You can see the current maximum upload file size on the bottom of the upload window as shown in the screenshot.

Check maximum file upload size

Increase the maximum upload file size

If your current maximum upload size does not meet your upload requirements, there are ways to increase the maximum file upload size. They are mainly the following:

  1. Edit the theme’s function.php file
  2. Create or edit the php.ini file
  3. Update .htaccess file
  4. Contact your hosting provider

Edit the theme’s function.php file

You can increase the maximum file upload size limits using the function.php file. On your WordPress dashboard, go to Appearances > Editor > function.php file. On a new line, add the following lines of code. Replace the memory parameter as per your requirements.

@ini_set( 'upload_max_size' , '64M' );
@ini_set( 'post_max_size', '64M');
@ini_set( 'max_execution_time', '300' );

Edit the php.ini file

If you are able to see the php.ini file in the root, then open the file in a text editor. If you are not, create a new file named php.ini. Add the following code to the file and change the values to according to your requirements. Now save and upload it to the root folder.

upload_max_filesize = 64M
post_max_size = 64M
max_execution_time = 300

Updating the .htaccess file

Head to the root directory and open the .htaccess file in the text editor. Adding the following code to the .htaccess file with your memory requirements can increase the maximum upload size in WordPress.

php_value upload_max_filesize 64M
php_value post_max_size 64M
php_value max_execution_time 300
php_value max_input_time 300

Contact your hosting provider

If the above solutions do not work for you, then the last resort is to contact your hosting provider and ask them to increase your maximum upload size limit.

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Comments (20)

  1. nastaran

    April 22, 2021

    thank you for toturial
    I have a question. I want to apply limits for product file uploads. is there any code for this? something like product_max_size = 64M
    thanks again

    Reply
    • Mark

      Mark

      April 29, 2021

      Hi,

      You may please change the maximum upload size to the desired value to limit the file upload size on your site.

      Reply
  2. Preshy

    March 1, 2020

    It worked perfectly well for me! Thanks admin for sharing this piece here. 🙏

    Reply
  3. Naijarhymes

    February 25, 2020

    Nice job

    Reply
  4. James Wesley

    January 27, 2020

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    Reply
  5. Manual

    December 23, 2019

    Thank you for sharing

    Reply
  6. Ifeanyi Benedict

    November 25, 2019

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    Reply
  7. Desire

    November 15, 2019

    Thanks for this

    Reply
  8. Midevibez

    November 15, 2019

    nice one

    Reply
  9. Adeyoung

    May 22, 2019

    I love this it helped

    Reply
  10. Adeyoung

    May 22, 2019

    Very helpful article

    Reply
  11. Femi Egzy

    May 15, 2019

    working Grade

    Reply
  12. NGSounds

    April 25, 2019

    Working well

    Reply
  13. ProudlyTunes

    April 16, 2019

    Very helpful tips

    Reply
  14. Career Kid

    April 6, 2019

    Thanks very much, it really works for me like a magic

    Reply
  15. T

    February 13, 2019

    It is the best

    Reply
  16. U.S. Custom Stickers

    January 9, 2019

    wow, great tip! easy enough.

    Reply
    • Mark

      Mark

      January 9, 2019

      Hi,

      Glad that you found the article useful!

      Reply
      • U.S. Custom Stickers

        January 18, 2019

        it actually was useful. however, on a side note, one site was on a managed cloud server and when we tried to update the htaccess file it would say on the hosting provider can make that change. we went into the server admin area and and made one single line change and boom! that was it. it was that easy on that one.

        Reply
  17. Cornelius N

    December 17, 2018

    Thanks, it worked for me

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