Title: How to increase PHP size limits
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# How to increase PHP size limits

 *  [monicakg86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monicakg86/)
 * (@monicakg86)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-increase-php-size-limits/)
 * Hi Everyone! I attempted to install a premium theme with plenty of sample images-
   stock images that I need to provide the skeleton for my website. My max size 
   upload is 7mb and I need to increase the post_max_size, upload_max_filesize, 
   and max_input_time. I have PHP version 5.3.
 * This is what I’ve tried and was unsuccessful at:
 * Created a PHP.ini file through TextEdit on my mac with the following code:
 * upload_max_filesize = 64M
    post_max_size = 64M max_execution_time = 500 max_input_time
   = 500
 * I took the PHP.ini file and dropped it into my wp-admin folder using FileZilla.
   I refreshed my website, closed the browser, reopened everything to no change 
   at all.
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks for your time.

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 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-increase-php-size-limits/#post-4838565)
 * You might have to put the `php.ini` file in the main web root folder, and not
   in `/wp-admin/`. I’ve also recently seen that the local `php.ini` files are being
   ignored on some server updates to 5.3.x so I’ve had to add the directives into
   the sites `.htaccess` file to get them to work, so that’s worth a try if the 
   ini files don’t work.

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 * [filesize](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/filesize/)
 * [ini](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ini/)
 * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/)

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 * Last reply from: [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-increase-php-size-limits/#post-4838565)
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