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  • I’m building a new design for a moderately large size. To make sure I don’t mess with any of the site’s live content, I setup a new WordPress install on a subdomain. beta.domain.com instead of http://www.domain.com. Of course, that also meant setting up a new database so I don’t use any of the live content. So far so good.

    The new theme is nearly complete, but the current version of the site has somewhere north of 100 categories. The new site is intended to narrow those down to 5-6 broadly defined categories, and then use tags on each post for more precision.

    But I need to import the current, live content into the new beta site’s WP database so I can play around with the categories, reassign the old posts en masse, and figure out the best way to organize it all.

    The export file from the live site is about 13.3MB. The import script imposed a limit of 4MB. I modified our .htaccess file with the following settings so that I can work around this limitation:

    php_value max_upload 14mb
    php_value post_max_size 14mb
    php_value max_execution_time 300
    php_value max_input_time 300

    Unfortunately, when running WP’s built-in importer, it just hangs perpetually without making any progress or stopping in error. I originally had only the max size and upload values, but without the max time values, it would run for 30-60 seconds or so, and then stop abruptly with a message asking if I want to try this again. No other error descriptions.

    Any thoughts as to EITHER what I’m doing wrong OR ways to work around the 4MB limit?

    If there’s a plugin that can do a better job importing from another local WordPress install, I’m not against using one. I just need to get the darn content in here.

    Dan

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  • Thread Starter dtrimble

    (@dtrimble)

    Incidentally, we have a dedicated server for this site if that makes it any easier.

    Thread Starter dtrimble

    (@dtrimble)

    Anyone? Please? It’s been 4 days now and I desperately need help getting the importer to work.

    I finally got the PHP variables set through .htaccess. Slightly different syntax in .htaccess instead of php.ini.

    But when the importer runs, it just goes on forever. It doesn’t actually import or anything, nor end with an error.

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