Title: WordPress Export Tool Not Working
Last modified: January 29, 2022

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# WordPress Export Tool Not Working

 *  [PayDelete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paydelete/)
 * (@paydelete)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-export-tool-not-working/)
 * I am trying to export posts from a single category using the WordPress export
   tool, but every time I click the button which says “Download Export File” the
   file does not download and I am eventually served with an error page saying “
   This site can’t be reached” followed by the URL and an error saying “ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE”
 * The category in question has about 50,000 posts so I am wondering if that size
   is too big for the WordPress Export tool handle.
 * I tried breaking the export up by only doing posts from the first year, but it
   had the same problem.
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by [PayDelete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paydelete/).

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 *  Thread Starter [PayDelete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paydelete/)
 * (@paydelete)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-export-tool-not-working/#post-15306588)
 * I was able to export some stuff by limiting the export to just a few months at
   a time, but eventually I got to the point where some months are too big to be
   exported.
 *  Thread Starter [PayDelete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paydelete/)
 * (@paydelete)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-export-tool-not-working/#post-15306597)
 * I noticed an error in cPanel which with redactions reads:
 * [Sat Jan 29 23:05:03.363696 2022] [cgi:error] [pid 2263] [client *****:33570]
   AH01215: PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried
   to allocate 57096687 bytes) in /home/****/public_html/f****.com/wp-includes/functions.
   php on line 5212: /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/ea-php74, referer: [https://*****.com/wp-admin/export.php](https://*****.com/wp-admin/export.php)
 *  Thread Starter [PayDelete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paydelete/)
 * (@paydelete)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-export-tool-not-working/#post-15306623)
 * I got the export working by setting the memory limit to -1 but now the Import
   tool doesn’t work. It freezes with a blank screen at wp-admin/admin.php?import
   =wordpress&step=2
 *  Thread Starter [PayDelete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paydelete/)
 * (@paydelete)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-export-tool-not-working/#post-15306679)
 * Thank god I didn’t remove the robots.txt block on that site because some dumbass
   as WordPress decided not to include images and other attachment with category
   level exports. As a result I downloaded a plugin to add that functionality, but
   so far it makes me have to breakup the exports into bi-monthly at all levels 
   so far. Then I can’t bulk delete the old import because when I tried using a 
   plugin now I get a message saying my serve is offline whenever I try to visit
   wp-admin directory, but the rest of the site does not show that error at all.
    -  This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by [PayDelete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paydelete/).
 *  Thread Starter [PayDelete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paydelete/)
 * (@paydelete)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-export-tool-not-working/#post-15306877)
 * I don’t know if this is a bug in WordPress itself or not, but whenever I do a
   really big import I cannot access wp-admin section anymore. It says offline as
   if only those pages are not allowed to connect.

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-export-tool-not-working/#post-15306877)
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