How do you increase the PHP time limit?

To protect web servers from abuse, a time limit is set for how long a PHP script can be executed. The actual time limit varies by hosting company, but usually the maximum execution time is set between 30 and 60 seconds.

When a script reaches the maximum execution time limit, it results in a maximum execution time exceeded error. There are a number of ways to resolve this error:

Method 1 - edit file wp-config.php

Add the code below to the file wp-config.php:

set_time_limit(300);

Method 2 - edit file .htaccess

Add the code below to the file .htaccess:

php_value max_execution_time 300

Method 3 - edit php.ini

Add the code below to php.ini:

max_execution_time = 300

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