Have you ever needed to upload a new plugin to WordPress on a webserver that has a small limit for the maximum size of a file that can be uploaded?
This can be frustrating. It has happened occasionally to UpdraftPlus users… because UpdraftPlus supports so many different cloud storage methods, the plugin zip is above 2 megabytes; and some web servers have not changed the default PHP maximum upload settings found in some PHP packaging setups from 2Mb.
In this situation, you have to instead install the plugin manually, via FTP.
This is technically challenging for users who have not used FTP before. And it is impossible if you are working on somebody else’s site, and they did not, or will not, give you FTP details.
To deal with this annoyance, for all plugins anywhere, we’ve just released a small new plugin to the entire WordPress community. It does one thing, and one thing only: it extends the WordPress plugin uploader to be able to handle plugins of any size – i.e. independently of the PHP maximum upload limit. (If you must know the technical details, then, under the hood it uses the excellent plupload to upload the file in chunks, with each chunk being smaller than the upload limit – and then stitches them together at the end).
It’s a simple, “install / activate / that’s it” plugin. You can search for it in your WordPress dashboard – search for “upload larger plugins”. Or get it from wordpress.org here.
David Anderson (founder, leader developer, UpdraftPlus)
