Title: max_upload_size issue
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# max_upload_size issue

 *  Resolved [contemplate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/contemplate/)
 * (@contemplate)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/max_upload_size-issue/)
 * For some reason $max_upload_size was returning a negative number on my hosting.
   So I replaced the get_max_upload_size() function with wp_max_upload_size() and
   the plugin works again.
 * Here is my code around line 183:
 *     ```
       //$max_upload_size = $this->get_max_upload_size();
       //$max_upload_size = $max_upload_size * 1024;//convert kb to bytes
       $max_upload_size = wp_max_upload_size();
       ```
   
 * Not sure why that method wasn’t used before.
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 *  Plugin Author [SeventhQueen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seventhqueen/)
 * (@seventhqueen)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/max_upload_size-issue/#post-5899874)
 * Great. Thanks for sharing.
 * All the best

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