Title: Partial Import Server Timeout, Incremental Last modified: December 11, 2016 --- # Partial Import Server Timeout, Incremental * [zarrarnyc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zarrarnyc/) * (@zarrarnyc) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-server-timeout-incremental/) * Hi, Great plugin! When I “Run Import” it works, but after a while it will cause a 500 server error. This happened twice, for every time I “Run Import”. After each time running import, a few more products are imported. Please advise on what is happening here. * Thank you Z Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * Plugin Author [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/) * (@tw2113) * The BenchPresser * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-server-timeout-incremental/#post-8540760) * Pretty much it’s likely either timing out, or running out of available memory. We need to see about providing a better way to handle the topic, especially for larger stores, as it’s always going to be a fairly long process, and ideally would work on a large variety of hosting environments. * Definitely not perfect, by any means. * Thread Starter [zarrarnyc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zarrarnyc/) * (@zarrarnyc) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-server-timeout-incremental/#post-8540825) * Hi, Thanks for the quick reply. I have found kind of a workaround. By increasing the execution, and post time to a very high setting (1200 ) I was able to import 189 of 299 products, whereas without doing this, I was stuck at importing only 33 products before hitting a 500 server error. * Now I have increased it to 12000, and post time to 1200 and attempting again. Hopefully it should import all products before hitting the 500 server error. I will add my notes here. * Thank you * Thread Starter [zarrarnyc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zarrarnyc/) * (@zarrarnyc) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-server-timeout-incremental/#post-8540990) * Hi, After changing the max exection time setting and post times to 120000 on both, and adding max exection time to the .htaccess time of 6600, I still get 500 server error but after it has imported 230 of 299 products. There are 69 more products to go, and nothing i can do seems to go beyond that limit. Please advise. * Thank you * Thread Starter [zarrarnyc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zarrarnyc/) * (@zarrarnyc) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-server-timeout-incremental/#post-8540994) * Is there a way to break the process into increments? * Plugin Author [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/) * (@tw2113) * The BenchPresser * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-server-timeout-incremental/#post-8541498) * Admittedly, the plugin isn’t that robust at the moment. I don’t know the exact history with it, but I have to believe it was a case of a tool built for a previous client for WebDevStudios, that we decided to also release publicly. That said, it was a one-purpose, at the time, use thing that wasn’t built out to be extremely robust. * Thread Starter [zarrarnyc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zarrarnyc/) * (@zarrarnyc) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-server-timeout-incremental/#post-8541527) * I understand. I appreciate your feedback. If it were to be further developed would be able to provide some guidance. Thank you * Thread Starter [zarrarnyc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zarrarnyc/) * (@zarrarnyc) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-server-timeout-incremental/#post-8545161) * Perhaps 30 products at a time? * Plugin Author [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/) * (@tw2113) * The BenchPresser * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-server-timeout-incremental/#post-8545215) * We simply don’t have it coded in a way to do so in batch amounts, that part would need to be worked on first, before it can be utilized. * Thread Starter [zarrarnyc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zarrarnyc/) * (@zarrarnyc) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-server-timeout-incremental/#post-8547729) * I also realize it creates a new CPT rather than import to the WooCommerce Products. Are there any workarounds to get that into the WooCommerce Product rather than export / import, which is probably the best way. * Plugin Author [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/) * (@tw2113) * The BenchPresser * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-server-timeout-incremental/#post-8548027) * Nothing intentional, as it was never built to import into WooCommerce, it was just meant to import into its data type in your install. However, you could likely do a mashup of sorts for it with [https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-type-switcher/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-type-switcher/) or some queries/sql to switch in mass. * Thread Starter [zarrarnyc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zarrarnyc/) * (@zarrarnyc) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-import-server-timeout-incremental/#post-8549679) * Awesome!! Will look into it. 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