Title: change php timeout
Last modified: November 14, 2019

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# change php timeout

 *  Resolved [sadeq0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sadeq0/)
 * (@sadeq0)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-php-timeout/)
 * Hi
    Why do you change php max_execution_time by set_time_limit(4*3600)?

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 *  Plugin Contributor [cageehv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cageehv/)
 * (@cageehv)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-php-timeout/#post-12131950)
 * Hey sadeq,
 * Optimizing large sites can take a while (up to minutes).
    I want to prevent a
   timeout in the middle of the process.
 * That’s why 🙂
 * peace,
    Rolf

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