Title: Media Upload Problems
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Media Upload Problems

 *  [nizami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nizami/)
 * (@nizami)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-upload-problems-8/)
 * There are many other ‘media upload error’ threads out there. Posting again as
   none of them have resolved the issue for me, which persists after numerous fresh
   installs of WP.
 * Issue
    Random errors when uploading new media to the media library using either
   the standard 3.9.1 upload interface or the browser uploader. I either get just
   the little red tag at the top of the screen, or the following error against the
   uploading media entry at the bottom:
 * Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/content/77/
   12052677/html/wp-includes/class-wp-image-editor-imagick.php on line 355
 * I have spent time on the phone to my host, had them look at /tmp and php.config
   for media upload file limits etc all to no avail.
 * I was not having this problem in 3.8.2. It is possible that host have updated
   something, and so there is a version conflict somewhere. It is possible the problem
   is purely WordPress. I suspect the latter, and therefore hope the WP Wizards 
   on this site can help, as the problem is a total blocker for me on client sites.
 * Any help very much appreciated I’m at a brick wall on this one.
 * N

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 *  [Dave Naylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpranger/)
 * (@wpranger)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-upload-problems-8/#post-4903059)
 * The error massage is telling you that PHP has reached its maximum execution time
   to complete a task, in this case, dealing with an image. It’s probably because
   of the image file’s size. Either speak to your hosts about raising the limit,
   or, don’t rely on your web server to resize the image, do it prior to upload 
   to cut down on the upload time.

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## Tags

 * [media](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/media/)
 * [upload](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upload/)

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 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Dave Naylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpranger/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-upload-problems-8/#post-4903059)
 * Status: not resolved

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