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that’s actually a brilliant idea muhtar, thanks!

After MUCH reading, I found out how to ‘get’ the hosts php.ini file via a script and make a new one with changes that allow me to upload the WP XML file.

Finally it started uploading well, and then this error:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/techznet/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 139

which is wrong because its actually again a php.ini limit…SO back to remaking the new ini file with the exec time raised to 300..

Re-upload the XML file, errors at a 2 lines in wordpress.php but keeps on going, but since there are a few 1000 images that were uploaded in the wp.com blog it ends prematurely…so a few refreshes later it finally uploads the file and completes the import…all well and good I say.

Next it decides to totally screw up the blog by assigning each image an ID, as if it were a post…adding the 1000s of images to the Manage–>Upload section as blank attachments linking to non existant files. This in turn totally makes browsing through older posts a hassle especially with themes using an ajax based ‘live’ archives, as each of the pictures is treated as a post.

The Dashboard cannot display the commentors names as well.

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So going to try and get wp.com to export us the XML after deleting all the uploaded images, which we plan to host on a subdomain and link without using the built in WP upload interface.

Complicated, and time-consuming ??

Thanks a bunch, I guess I was looking in the wrong place all along, going to email my host now!

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I just checked with someone on a totally different host, it appears they have that same limit too.

It seems it’s a limit on the host, I just checked the PHP Info page.

Hi HandySolo, thanks for the reply.

It’s not my host that is limiting the upload to 2MB, it’s wordpress itself.

The other solution you mention of breaking it down, it’s an XML file and I wouldn’t know what way WP requires me to split the file up.

An update, it still happens with WP, even the latest 2.1.2

The only way to add a category, making changes, is to disable JavaScript.

I’m having the same issue on my blog as well, the funny thing is that it has radomly started…no more adding/delete of Categories..just “You do not have permission”

What I’ve tried:

Turning off ALL plugins
Switching to default theme
Trying Opera/Firefox/IE6 to create a category
Doing that above mentioned firefox/status bar trick
Made sure I’m the admin account on WP

The only thing that worked is disable JavaScript in FF and make the category.

I had to re-sort, categorize my Blogroll links as well, but I was wondering, since the mergine of both categories, how do we now limit the links in our Blogroll to a specific number, as was possible in pre WP 2.1. Another option was to randomize it, therefore if you had 30 links, you could set it to show 10 at a time, randomized. The codex doesn’t seem to have been updated to reflect the latest changes of WP 2.1 in this regard

Thanks samboll, Viper007Bond said the same thing, but wasnt totally sure. Gonna update the theme to the latest version.