Title: Increase Maximum Upload Size
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Increase Maximum Upload Size

 *  [dsaunderswa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsaunderswa/)
 * (@dsaunderswa)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-maximum-upload-size/)
 * The “UPload New Media” in the WP Dashboard shows a maximum upload size of 25MB.
   How can I increase that?
 * I’m using a theme I purchased through themeforrest a year ago.
 * Thanks
    Deborah

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 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-maximum-upload-size/#post-2508020)
 * Discuss with your webhost, large file uploads can greatly impact server performance
   and most actually limit it to less than that…If you have a video, try using a
   third party like youtube or vimeo as you would also be getting a bandwidth usage
   hit (from host) perhaps…
 *  Thread Starter [dsaunderswa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsaunderswa/)
 * (@dsaunderswa)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-maximum-upload-size/#post-2508022)
 * Thank you. I can appreciate your concern for “those who” impact server performance
   by uploading huge files. That said, that is NOT who I am — nor do I plan to upload
   huge files.
 * I have an audio file that’s 30MG. The limit shown for this particular WP site
   is 25MG. I have another website where the max upload size is 64MB. I do not understand
   how it is different — same host.
 * So, I’d still like to know how to increase that limit.
 * Can anyone help me out with this?
 *  [fonglh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fonglh/)
 * (@fonglh)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-maximum-upload-size/#post-2508027)
 * It’s a PHP configuration setting, not a WordPress limitation. Some hosts allow
   you to change the default with your own configuration file.
 * Which is why you need to ask your host.
 *  Thread Starter [dsaunderswa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsaunderswa/)
 * (@dsaunderswa)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-maximum-upload-size/#post-2508040)
 * OK. It’s HostGator. I will contact them. Thank you.

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