increasing the upload file size limit in wordpress media library

Many people want to upload big size media in wordpress. Now with current version you can upload 10 mb file in wordpress.
If you want to increaze that you should make some changes in your wordpress code.

First option you need to open your functions.php file and put following code in that file.
Note: Here with this code you can upload the upto 50 mb file to your wordpress website.

ini_set('upload_max_size','50M');
ini_set('post_max_size','50M');
ini_set('max_execution_time,'300');

Open your wp-settings.php file which you can find in your root directory. Put following code in that file.

if ( !defined('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT') )
 define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '500M');

Add this code following code in your .htaccess file. This file you can find in your root directory.

php_value upload_max_filesize 50M
php_value post_max_size 50M
php_value max_execution_time 300
php_value max_input_time 300

Above method is used by many webdevelopers for increasing the file upload limit on server for PHP language.

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20 thoughts on “increasing the upload file size limit in wordpress media library”

Carmen Goodwyn on February 14, 2011 at 12:24 am said:

Very interesting entry, I look forward to the next!

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Dave Moppert on February 16, 2011 at 5:33 am said:

Does not work at all.

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Wordpress API on April 22, 2011 at 7:39 pm said:

Which hosting service you are using. You need to check with your hosting provider. How much maximum file size hosting service provider is offering that is very important.

If your hosting provider is not giving you the permission to adding the custom setting then this code will not work.
This code will work for 90 percent hosting services.

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Funny Fail on October 18, 2011 at 8:47 am said:

Thanks, going to try this out on my blog! Sucks that WordPress just doesn’t allow us to change the settings, and go through all of this.

But thanks Anyway trying it out now..

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