Import problems, limit on number of images?

Discovered a third notice:
Notice: wp_get_http has been deprecated since version 4.4.0 Use WP_Http instead in \wp-content\plugins\rolo-slider\import\importer.php on line 772
Still no luck with importing.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by Malae.

Hello,

And thanks for contacting us.

Plugin is using same functionality for importing from WordPress importer plugin, so notices are fine, and won’t cause problems when importing. Notices are not errors. Also, as you can see slides were imported. You can check WordPress importer code and you’ll see that they are alike, especially for these parts where base_url variable is used, so nothing to worry about. I can only guess that problems with import were related with resources since they are also common when using WordPress importer plugin – usually when max_execution time is lower or some other server config. I assure you that we didn’t set any limit to the number of slides. Importer code will be updated when WP Importer releases some major update, and regarding wp_get_http – it is deprecated from version 4.4 but it will continue to work like many other deprecated WP functions. Off course we will replace this function with suggested in next update, but again this won’t cause problems with import.

Regards,

Thank you for your reply. My present status is that I can get everything working on the WAMP server with a slider set up to show more than 50 slides with everything working as it should and am very happy with the results.

I decided to start from scratch again on the hosted site with a new exported xml file, which is much bigger (more complete?) than the last one and I was able to complete the import to the hosted site. I was able to see the images in the slider, but noted that the URLs were for the localhost. I tried changing the URLs to the hosted site URL and saving, but images were not displayed in the editor. I then re-added each image and saved, which seemed to work. However, on checking the final result on the slider page, I found that the images had not saved/loaded after No.35. Up to that point all images displayed as they should except for the last slide (No. 35), which did not save the title in the bottom position and in fact did not display at all. I also cannot save additional slides beyond this point. This result is identical to that of my first attempt as related above, so I am back to square one.

I am aware that notices are not errors, but according to many posts on the subject of
Notice: wp_get_http has been deprecated since version 4.4.0 Use WP_Http instead,
it appears it can cause problems problems, reported by many others over the past 2 years, e.g.
... the problem isn't really the error notice — it's that wp_get_http() calls @set_time_limit( 60 ); internally, which means the importer can fatal while importing large files. When the importer fatals, then some amount of user data is broken.(sic)
and
This issue breaks pretty much every import I run, until I remember to hack wp_get_http() and remove the set_time_limit().
Perhaps this is the issue, or I have take some wrong steps, or am missing something. I would appreciate help with this.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by Malae.

I found the following after my attempts to upload more image files.
PHP Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /wp-content/plugins/media-library-organizer/includes/admin/media.php on line 414

Hi again,

Regarding, image URLs, it is intended to be like that, and images will point to URLs from imported domain, so you need to add them to media library on site where you have imported slides, and to set image again for each slide. This is mentioned in this topic https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/php-errors-94/page/2/

While testing import, I couldn’t reproduce issue with not being able to update slides, if you could, please send us your xml file at pressfore[@]gmail.com so we can test with it.

Regarding wp_get_http() notice, it can cause that but you can overcome it by repeating import, like when this happen with WordPress importer, but it really shouldn’t timeout for just 50 slides.

Second one is from WordPress core
/wp-content/plugins/media-library-organizer/includes/admin/media.php
and from my experience it is usually hosting config related, or it is issue with hosting package resources, so if you’ll be doing some more test please also open developers tools in Chrome or Firefox and watch console for some errors. Common problem with Import can be WordPress memory limit and upload time, and it is good if you can increase these values or ask your hosting service to do that for you.

max_execution_time = 300;
memory_limit = 256M;
upload_max_filesize = 64M;
post_max_size = 256M;

After increasing memory limit on hosting it is also important to set it in WordPress https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP

If hosing is using mod_security, then also try to set following line to WordPress .htaccess file. You can put this line at the end of the file, after the # END WordPress line https://www.screencast.com/t/uatdkTku0bx :

SubstituteMaxLineLength 10m

Regards,

Hello,

Thank you for your response with explanations and suggestions. I was successful in fixing the problem, but will add some further comments for the benefit of others, who may experience similar issues.

When I set up the slider on the WAMP localhost, I did not experience any memory or timeout problems, probably because they are common issues with WAMP and I had long ago set higher values. I had already uploaded all the images to the hosted site and, when I imported the XML slider file, I was surprised that it had imported the images, thus duplicating them in the media library. They displayed after I changed the URLs in the slider editor. I noted that the image WP IDs are used so one has to be careful, when deleting duplicates.

Regarding your suggestions to increase memory limits and execution time, I had already tried increasing several values without success including the following:

max_execution_time 180 seconds
memory_limit 128 MB

including setting in the wp-config.php file. I had also increased max-input time, max_file uploads, max input _vars on the server settings without success.

However, I repeated using the increased limits you suggested and was immediately successful: a big relief.

Btw, I did not use SubstituteMaxLineLength 10m

To anyone who experiences problems as I did, I can only advise: keep trying, because the results are worth the effort. Its a great plugin.