Find way to overcome PHP upload limits for Importing large WordPress XML files

[MichaelH]

Consider finding a way to overcome the PHP upload limits that presents problems to users importing large WordPress XML files into their blog.

Can any of the new automatic plugin update technology be used for this?

This is a persistent question in the Forums. Recommendations to increase PHP settings are thwarted because many hosts make it difficult-to-impossible to change any PHP settings.

The 2.5 WXR importer will accept a gz compressed file if the server includes the zlib extension. It's transparent - just compress the file then upload it as you would a normal xml file. Does that help?

That's good to know.

Since many times the question in the Forums comes from someone moving from wordpress.COM, maybe wordpress.COM could offer that gz compression.

Breaking the file up is another option, but that's more of an education issue (explaining how to do that).

Thanks for the gz tip.

Maybe the solution is to allow a file to be uploaded via FTP then selected for import.

Here's a 62mb example ​http://wordpress.org/support/topic/165412

Closing as dup of #3632