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Hi Marcus, I appreciate your response. When the plugin failed to increase the limit, I simultaneously 1) asked the host provider (GreenGeeks – excellent) in chat what their upload limit was (64MB by default) and 2) started reading the four ways they had to increase the size limit manually.

He immediately asked if I wanted him to increase the existing default 8MB, and he had it increased within seconds of me saying yes. Blindingly fast service. Faster than I could decide which of the various methods to use.

For the plugin, I confirm that the WordPress limit was 8MB below the “upload new media” panel, that the host provider default limit was 64MB, and that the plugin did not change the value shown in the upload media panel. The plugin provided no “Successful! Your new size is xxx MB!” success message that I could see.

I’m sorry, I can’t remember if I retried uploading the 9MB file after running the plugin. The plugin sure sounded like a good idea to me (as a semi-newbie). I would have rather used it than editing PHP files myself.

Best regards, Kevin

Thank you for your answer. The pre-edit method won’t do, since I seek a solution where users can control the speed like they can with many video players.

Thanks for the awesome fast response! I came back to fix the demo link in my post, but see that I can’t edit it any more. Here’s a full working link: https://thepodcastfactory.com/doberman-dan/ for an example.

Ah… Thank you for your post! It is most interesting that the system requirements explicitly disavow Windows use, and Windows support. I am indeed using XAMPP, so I am clearly offside of the doc. I found out about Wordfence from a course on how to develop locally on Windows, so I never checked the system requirements myself. I also download my web hosting site (unix, with Wordfence) to my Windows and iMac machines for local development.

So maybe the solution is to leave Wordfence installed, but turn it off immediately when I get on Windows.

As for the workaround (thank you for that reference)–I came across that, and tried it, but it did not help me at all. In fact it caused Apache to abort, because the XAMPP default Apache httpd.conf doesn’t load the winnt module.

By the time I flogged through hours and hours of googling and trying fixes and experiments, I eventually gave up and posted here. And… according to the doc, giving up was the right thing to do–I never should have tried it initially!

So all is well now. Thank you.

An update, I managed to get the assistant working, so now I’m up and running again, with the Wordfence plugin loaded but disabled. Now I’ll activate it to see what I can see.. Thank you for that WP Assistant!

Updates:

– As soon as I activate Wordfence, I get the Connection Reset error and can’t see anything in my site. It would be really nice if the Assistant had the ability to inspect the WF settings, or dump the log or something.

– I told the assistant to disable the firewall, delete tables, locked ips, and live traffic data. (I pressed all 4 buttons in the assistant, multiple times).

But as long as the wordfence folder is there, I get the connection reset lockout error. I even deleted and reinstalled the WF plugin, but as soon as the NEW installation created the folder, the Connection Reset error showed up again.

It’s almost as if someone is watching for that folder, and locking out the whole site as a response to a spam folder or something (just playing with ideas here). I also run the WP Security plugin. It’s a puzzle.

For now, Wordfence has to stay uninstalled, so I can get some work done…

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