If you’re seeing ugly error message when uploading file to your WordPress website there’s a good chance you’re hitting the maximum file upload limit set by your server settings.

The good news is with our web hosting it’s easy for you to quickly increase the maximum upload size for your WordPress site using one of the three methods below;

Method 1: Change your Ecenica web hosting PHP settings. (Recommended)

  1. Log in to cPanel.
  2. Click Select PHP Version.
  3. Click Switch To PHP Options
  4. Click the upload_max_filesize PHP value, choose an option and click Apply
  5. Click the post_max_size PHP value, set it to the same value as upload_max_filesize. Click Apply
  6. Click Save

If you are not using Ecenica web hosting, or do not have PHP Selector available, try one of the following methods.

Method 2: Edit your theme’s functions.php file.

  1. FTP in to your web space and download a copy of the active theme’s functions.php file. The path will be something like /wp-content/themes/mytheme/functions.php.
  2. Add the following lines of code on a new line immediately after the opening <?php.

      //Set Max Upload Size
      @ini_set( 'upload_max_size' , '64M' );
      @ini_set( 'post_max_size', '64M');
      @ini_set( 'max_execution_time', '300' );
      @ini_set( 'max_input_time', '300' );
      

  3. Upload the file to your web space, making sure to upload to the same location.

Method 3: Edit your .htaccess file.

An advanced way of increasing your upload limit, but one which offers best performance – so worth a try.

Open your .htaccess file in your code editor of choice and add the following lines of code:

#Set Max Upload Size
php_value upload_max_filesize 64M
php_value post_max_size 64M
php_value max_execution_time 300
php_value max_input_time 300

Tip: If you don’t have a code editor, login to your cPanel and use the File Manager tool.