Thread Starter
cat
(@cathrynbgirlcom)
Hi. Thank you. I have read versions of that and asked my host company to update my values which they did yesterday.
I’m going to try again to see if it works now.
However, when I looked at this Codex page you linked it says:
To import from a WordPress export file into a WordPress blog follow these steps.
Log into that blog as an administrator.
Go to Manage: Import (or Tools:Import in 2.7+)in the blog’s admin panels.
Choose “WordPress” from the list.
Upload this file using the form provided on that page.
You will first be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the blog. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the blog or to create a new user
WordPress will then import each of the posts, comments, and categories contained in this file into your blog
I was NOT asked to map the authors in the export file. I suppose that is a WordPress.com question?
Thanks. I’ll be back if it doesn’t work or try for help somewhere, not sure where.
Cathryn.
Thread Starter
cat
(@cathrynbgirlcom)
Okay well my file size is 10.7 MB. it says on my WP import page the limit is 4 MB. The host company changed the values as follows — is M the same as MB? Because that seems like it is my problem.
post_max_size = 16M
upload_max_filesize = 4M
Thanks –
Cathryn.
is M the same as MB?
Yes. You need to increase the upload_max_filesize to at least 11M.
Thread Starter
cat
(@cathrynbgirlcom)
Thanks Esmi. Okay, did that. That worked except once it imported I then got the message “failed to import media” a number of times… which seem to be mostly photos. And then after a ton of these messages, I got this:
Content Encoding Error
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.
??
That’s not a WordPress error per se. Looks like there was a problem on the server itself.
Thread Starter
cat
(@cathrynbgirlcom)
Hi esmi,
My host company looked into it and the site is there with many of the posts and I haven’t gone back through it all (there’s 800+ posts) to see which images didn’t come through per that message. When I got that caution warning, I thought it didn’t import.
However, it would appear it didn’t all imported – the host company said to import via the plugin again and they read here at WP.org that sometimes when the file is that big that it takes a few tries to get it all there.
Should I do that? I won’t get duplicates? I have written new posts that I’d like to import also … so that would take care of that.
Thanks.
