CHRONICLE OF AN OBSESSIVE BLOGGER

Hi! You must probably reached here after getting error of importing your WordPress xml file, or have problem to transfer your big wordpress blog to another hosting. Today I’m doing a wordpress blog transfer and found a difficulty along the process. I have done all the necessary process, which are:

1. Creating a backup file of previous WordPress blog (login to ‘wp-admin’>’Tools’>’Export’ )
2. Copied all the ‘wp-content’ folder.
3. Installing new WordPress file into new hosting environment.
4. Replace the ‘wp-content’ folder with the backup one.

Now it comes to the part of importing back the previous xml backup database that I created in Step 1. It was a total of 18.7Mb file, but while I click on the Import area (login to ‘wp-admin’>’Tools’>’Import’ ), I found that the limit for importing file is only 8MB! What the heck! It was half than the original file generated.

I tried to upload it back but failed, and getting this error message;

Sorry, there has been an error.

File is empty. Please upload something more substantial. This error could also be caused by uploads being disabled in your php.ini or by post_max_size being defined as smaller than upload_max_filesize in php.ini.

Solution to import bigger WordPress XML file into WordPress blog

I always hate to do complicated solution to solve this lame error. Configuring Php.ini and .htaccess did not solve this mystery. Well, not anymore. Google is always the sifoo. Found another trick to help those who also getting the same problem with me.

I found an application that can split large xml file into smaller files, which called WordPress Splitter program. It can split file, example, 8Mb of xml file, into 8-20 smaller xml files which less than 1Mb per file respectively.

WordPress Splitter program require you to install Virtual Basic 6 runtime. All you need to do to perform splitting operation are:

1. Download and install Virtual Basic 6 runtime. Just click on install and next, next until finish.
2. Download WordPress Splitter program, extract the file using Winrar, and run WPsplitter.exe.
3. Select the xml file that you want to split and click ‘Open’.
4. Done! Your file will be extracted on the directory you keep your xml files.

I’ve used the WordPress splitter to split my 18.7Mb xml backup file created, into 21 files, and then upload them one by one to ‘wp-admin’>’Tools’>’Import’, and..

All done. Have fun!

All has been successfully imported. Got the idea? Hope this helps. Anything just let me know, leave me comments.

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