Are you facing problems while uploading heavy image files, themes or plugins in WordPress website? You need to increase the maximum file upload size in WordPress. Many times minimum file upload size limit stops you from uploading files especially themes and plugins or images via media unloader. In this article, I will explain how you can easily increase the maximum file upload size in WordPress to fix all those problems.

How to Check Maximum File Upload Size Limit in WordPress?

You can check easily the maximum file upload size limit. To check it, in your WordPress site dashboard go to Media >> Add New page and you will find the file upload size limit for your WordPress site.

There are three methods that I will share with you to Increase the Maximum File Upload Size in WordPress.

1: Theme Functions File

You can increase the File Upload Size just by adding a shortcode in your theme’s functions.php file. You can perform this task by installing any Theme editor plugin, FTP or by using CPanel. This method only works in a running theme while uploading plugin or media files like images or videos. If you are trying to upload a new theme and facing this problem you need to follow method No. 2 or 3.

@ini_set( 'upload_max_size' , '64M' ); @ini_set( 'post_max_size', '64M'); @ini_set( 'max_execution_time', '300' );

2. Edit or Create PHP.INI file

In this method, you will have to access your WordPress site’s root folder (example: public_html/yoursite.com/php.ini) by using the FTP or Cpanel File Manager app in your hosting account.

In case you are using shared hosting, you will not find a php.ini file in your site’s root directory. So you just need to create a fresh php.ini file in your PC and upload it in the root folder. Add the following code in the newly created php.ini file.

upload_max_filesize = 64M post_max_size = 64M max_execution_time = 300

This method work in most cases but if 64M doesn’t work then try 10MB, I hope that will work.

3. Edit .htaccess file

In many cases, method No. 1 and 2 don’t work. So you should try to modify the .htaccess file located in your site’s root folder. Simply add the following code in your .htaccess file (you can add this code anywhere, in the beginning, or at the end)

php_value upload_max_filesize 64M php_value post_max_size 64M php_value max_execution_time 300 php_value max_input_time 300

Remember that if you are using a shared hosting package, then these methods would possibly not work (in my case it worked). So you have to contact your hosting provider to increase the maximum file upload size for you.

I hope these methods will help you a lot to increase the maximum file upload size in WordPress.

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