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Change your Wordpress upload_max_filesize limit with Bluehost in 6 easy steps

Charlene — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:27:48 +0000

My website is hosted under Bluehost, which so far has been treating me well. I do a lot of uploading since my site also serves as my portfolio for art and music, and there have been times when I would attempt to upload something into Wordpress and it would give me the following error:

The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini.

I was able to fix the problem, so I figured I’d create a post to help out anyone out there who has this problem as well. This guide assumes:

You are a Bluehost user
You setup Wordpress on your domain using Bluehost

This guide is current as of 10/4/2009.

1. Log into your Bluehost account and go to your PHP Config

2. Change PHP settings to PHP5 (Single php.ini)

The default settings on Bluehost sets your PHP is at PHP5. Change this to PHP5 (Single php.ini) and save changes.

3. Install the php.ini master file

Select Install the php.ini master file.

Once done installing, it should display a message that it was successfully installed. Note that when this creates the php.ini master file, it names it as php.ini.default.

4. Go back to your cPanel tab and open up the File Manager

5. Rename php.ini.default to php.ini

Locate php.ini.default (it should be in your public_html directory). Right click it and rename this to php.ini.

6. Edit php.ini

Once the file is renamed, right click php.ini and this time go to Edit. (I chose Edit over Code Edit because Code Edit opens it through something called “cPanel X” which I think is a bit more troublesome to use over just opening php.ini as a text file through Edit.)

Find upload_max_filesize through a CTRL+F search and you’ll find the little troublemaker. By default, it’s set to 2M, which is 2 megabytes.

Comment out, versus deleting, upload_max_filesize = 2M by adding a semicolon to the beginning of the line. (It’s just good coding practice.) Then add a second line where you set your desired upload limit. I arbitrarily set mine to 20 megabytes.

Remember to save your changes, and that should be it!

Hello, world!

Charlene — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:06:23 +0000

I’ve migrated my old site, I Stand Enchanted, to this new domain, Engineer By Design. The change was mostly because I never felt that “I Stand Enchanted” truly conveyed the meaning of what I wanted my blog/portfolio to be. Instead, it was created in a failed effort from trying to come up with a domain name by combining a favorite song, I Stand, with a favorite movie, Enchanted.

The phrase “engineer By design” fitted my site’s purpose, while miraculously at the same time was a domain that wasn’t squatted. The name truly plays on the definition of “by”. I am engineer that, well, engineers in conformity with design (hence, “Engineer By Design”), yet at the same time I am an engineer accompanied with design experience (hence, “Engineer By Design”.)

There are still some small things that I need to fix here and there (i.e., a few more CSS modifications I’d like to implement) and coming up with a better design for my music page. I somehow feel it can be presented much more effectively and I probably also need to dig into what WordPress plugins I could use out there to make it turn out the way I want.

I am quite happy with the solution for a better way of presenting my little art gallery. I was linking to Coroflot previously since it seemed like an easy fix from WordPress’ built-in gallery. Now, I’m using prettyPhoto, which is essentially a clone of jQuery lightbox. I might add that it’s also very, very pretty.

I’m trying to finish this, among other things, between now and next Thursday once I start graduate school. Just one more week left!

Site Redesign

Charlene — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:03:42 +0000

Over the past few days you may have noticed that the website has been slowly going over soem redesign. Once I got the image header done, I started to take on the CSS, but very slowly. (It’s hard to be in front of a computer when I come home after being in front of one all day for 9 hours at work.) One of the things that’s troubling me a little bit is the Portfolio section of the website, because I’m not sure how to categorize the sections in art and music. (For example, categorizing in terms of the type of media versus the purpose in which it was used.) I’d like to come up with a more efficient category system before I upload the remaining works that I’ve gathered. That way I can control the “clutter” first instead of adding it.

Under Construction

Charlene — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:47:27 +0000

Well, after months — maybe years even — of wanting to setup a website for my portfolio, projects, and engineering shenannigans, I’ve finally done so.

As you can tell, this site is still very much in the works. Here’s my to-do list so far:

Setup domain/DNS (7/25/2008)
Gather content for my Portfolio page from both laptop and computer
Update About section; maybe find pics to post? (7/24/2008)
Update resume (7/26/2008)
After content established, completely overhaul CSS design (current one is temporary)

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7/26/2008 Update:

Well, I have a bit more content up now. There’s still a lot of browsing around to do for gathering and organizing things into my portfolio. In regards to my Resume and About section, I feel as if they’re rough drafts, and at this moment after looking over and proofreading my work, I can’t seem to catch typos and errors when in my gut I feel like there are.

There’s still much work to do, but as it is right now, it’s starting to look more solid, which I am thankful for.