THE MOLITOR FORUMS » Topic: Failure to Import Demo File http://www.themolitor.com/forums/topic/failure-to-import-demo-file THE MOLITOR FORUMS » Topic: Failure to Import Demo File en-US Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:59:37 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.themolitor.com/forums/search.php THE MOLITOR on "Failure to Import Demo File" http://www.themolitor.com/forums/topic/failure-to-import-demo-file#post-41256 Tue, 28 Mar 2017 09:00:33 +0000 THE MOLITOR 41256@http://www.themolitor.com/forums/

Hi there,

Definitely sounds like a hosting-related issue. "php.ini or by post_max_size being defined as smaller than upload_max_filesize in php.ini" is all host-related jargon that doesn't have anything to do with the theme.

Best,

Christopher

degal on "Failure to Import Demo File" http://www.themolitor.com/forums/topic/failure-to-import-demo-file#post-41255 Tue, 28 Mar 2017 08:12:57 +0000 degal 41255@http://www.themolitor.com/forums/

Hi, received and tried but the same results. When it stopped doing anything I refreshed the page and got this 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.

There are some images and also some files such as demo_content.xml_-2.txt and thecontractor.wordpress.2017-03-28.xml_.txt in the media folder. Nothing in pages or posts

THE MOLITOR on "Failure to Import Demo File" http://www.themolitor.com/forums/topic/failure-to-import-demo-file#post-41254 Tue, 28 Mar 2017 08:06:36 +0000 THE MOLITOR 41254@http://www.themolitor.com/forums/

Hi there,

The demo file is generated by WordPress, but I just sent a "fresh" copy of the xml file to the email you provided when signing up for the forums. Please let me know if that helps. If you don't see the email, please be sure to check the junk folder.

Best,

Christopher

degal on "Failure to Import Demo File" http://www.themolitor.com/forums/topic/failure-to-import-demo-file#post-41252 Tue, 28 Mar 2017 05:08:13 +0000 degal 41252@http://www.themolitor.com/forums/

No matter what I do when I click import I just get a white screen. After a while if I hit refresh I sometimes get a list of failed to import notices and a few files in the media folder. I've followed all the work through and increased process time/file upload limit etc

I've also contacted my hosting and they investigated and said the below:

"I've looked into this extensively to try and get to the root of the problem. I'm able to replicate the problem but there's no server-side solution from what I can see, it's possibly an issue with the actual file being imported."

Are you able to send me a clean wordpress file to import - or ideally a database export that i can use phpmyadmin to import? I'm not so bothered about images, just want to get the page layouts etc to save time in creating.

The live site is on another host - happy to provide log in access if you can modify hosts file to point to the new hosting where I am building this site on a completely new wordpress install.

thanks in advance