Jetpack makes my head hurt

  • Resolved RKordel

    (@rkordel)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    I have really tried to solve this on my own.

    The short story:
    Tried to install Jetpack, had it hang. Found out that the default size for files when WordPress loads is 2M, the size of Jetpack is 8M. Found out I am supposed to put the following lines in my php.ini file:

    upload_max_filesize = 100M
    post_max_size = 100M

    Connected to my WP site. Found out the Php.ini is a very popular file, and there is one in multiple subdirectories. I guessed the one in /wp-content/plugins/ but I was wrong – same symptoms, same problem.

    So, questions:
    1. which Php.ini do I need to edit? (some? all?)
    2. Do the lines above appear correct, or do they need to terminate in a “;”
    3. Why doesn’t Jetpack add some code to their installer to fix this?
    <!–rhetorical and philosophical–>

    Any assistance is gratefully welcomed.

    Richard

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  • Thread Starter RKordel

    (@rkordel)

    Solved it. Halfway on the way to learning the rudiments of PHP I thought there has to be a better way. All this was because I wanted people to be able to subscribe to my humble blog.

    Problem 1 – lots of posts make reference to large plugins abending. The solution for these is to edit PHP to increase the file load size. Down the wrong rabbit hole we went.

    Problem 2 – I read a number of “manual install” directions that seemed to indicate that I should download the .zip file to my pc, then install from there. Almost, but not the complete picture.

    Solution –

      Step 1: Download Jetpack.zip to my PC
      Step 2: Unzip the file into a separate subdirectory.
      Step 3: Use Filezilla to upload the unzipped subdirectory to the /plugins directory on my site.

    I now have a happy and functioning Jetpack running on my site. Now I have to see if I do this all over again the next time they update ??

    And if all this is very obvious to the community at large, my apologies.

    Richard

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