Importing blog larger than 8Mb from WordPress.com to www.ads-software.com.

1. Try adding this line to your wp-config.php file:
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

2. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini
If your line shows 32M try 64M:
memory_limit = 64M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64MB)

3. If you don't have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
php_value memory_limit 64M

4. Talk to your host.

Thank you for your response. I added this line of code to my wp-config.php file: define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);

I then tried to upload the 8.78 MB file and it still failed to upload.

I then called my host godaddy.com and they weren’t sure if they would support this problem, but he suggested doing something to my PHP.ini file and I asked if I had access to this file but he didn’t see a PHP.ini file. He said I could create a PHP.ini file using notepad.

Now I am going to make a notepad file with the one line of code you suggested in #2

memory_limit = 64M ;

and name it PHP.ini and upload it to the wordpress folder in my godaddy account.

If that doesn’t work, where can I find an .htaccess file as you suggested in #3? I’ve looked in my wordpress folder but don’t see that. Any additional help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Roger

I made the PHP.ini file with the one line of code

memory_limit = 64M ;

and uploaded it to my wordpress folder.

The 8.78 MB still wouldn’t upload.

Now I am at a dead end again.

Any further help is greatly appreciated.

Roger

When creating the wordpress export file you are given a choice to export by author. So I added a 2nd author to my wordpress.com and bulk edited about 300 of my 2000 posts to the new author. Then I created an export file of just the 2nd author’s posts which gave me a file size of just below 2 MB. So I thought I had this problem licked, but when trying to import the file to my www.ads-software.com blog, I am still getting a fatal error. This is very frustrating. So it seems I can’t import any size file to my new blog. Any suggestions? Thank you, Roger

Might not be the issue, but I’ve never had luck with GD’s automatic WP installer. If you get a linux hosting plan without anything installed, you’ll have a clean directory with an exisiting php.ini file. Then you can add the memory bump lines to it, or make an .htaccess file.

If you do that, I can’t remember if you will have web access via IP to do your own install of WP, or if you’ll have to go ahead and change DNS. If you do point your .com domain at GD, make sure you’ve got the export file and the WXR file splitter ready to go.

Thank you for the information. I will have to look into this more. If I get a linux hosting plan without anything installed does this mean I have to start fresh with a whole new domain? I am presently trying to incorporate my blog into an existing website. Food for thought. Thank you so much for the response and if anyone else is having this problem please let me know how you were able to transfer your wordpress.com blog posts to www.ads-software.com.

Best Regards,
Roger

No, you can keep your domain, but you may have to save your files from the other website so GoDaddy can set up or change the hosting – from the automatic WP hosting to “plain” linux – and then reupload them. Best to ask GoDaddy.

Are you on Windows hosting now? That may be the whole problem. Do yourself a favor and change to linux. GoDaddy can do that in a few hours: Switching Your Hosting Account Operating System – GoDaddy Help Center

I am on Windows hosting now. Thank you for the suggetion to switch to linux. I will have to read up on all the precautions I’ll have to take so that I don’t lose anything. I may just decide to stay on wordpress.com or take anther route to monetize my content – this is much more complicated than I bargained for.

I think the whole problem is Windows; it’s well documented in these forums. WordPress is much easier to work with on Linux.

Thank you very much for the information. I will work towards switching over to Linux. I’ll have to learn alot more about it first. I appreciate the help!

Roger

thanks for the splitter idea…to bad it just wont spew out the entire db and then one could split the xml by hand…