Title: Timing out while importing XML from WordPress.com
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Timing out while importing XML from WordPress.com

 *  [shani_b](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shani_b/)
 * (@shani_b)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timing-out-while-importing-xml-from-wordpresscom/)
 * I have spent the last 3 days attempting to use this to import my XML file of 
   my WordPress.com blog into WordPress. I followed all the directions. I split 
   the file. I even split the file into sizes as small as .10 MB. It consistently
   times out while importing. My programmer brother spent all night attempting to
   do it. He changed the server timeout time. He split the file manually. It still
   times out. After it times out, media files are uploaded, but no posts appear.
 * Help, please!
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-importer/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-importer/)

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timing-out-while-importing-xml-from-wordpresscom/#post-4383434)
 * Please continue with your previous topic: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/imported-wordpresscom-xml-file-and-nothing-happened?replies=6](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/imported-wordpresscom-xml-file-and-nothing-happened?replies=6)
 *  [steeleweed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steeleweed/)
 * (@steeleweed)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timing-out-while-importing-xml-from-wordpresscom/#post-4383729)
 * I had to break my exports down into 20+mb files on the export side and boost 
   the allowed file sizes and timeout values on the import side, but I imported 
   about 11 years of posts, about 56k posts.

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## Tags

 * [Import](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/import/)
 * [time-out](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/time-out/)
 * [wordpress.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wordpress-com/)
 * [xml](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xml/)

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 * Last reply from: [steeleweed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steeleweed/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timing-out-while-importing-xml-from-wordpresscom/#post-4383729)
 * Status: not resolved