Hey @jeanphilippegrasse,

thanks for the report!

We introduced a 2 MB limit on fetching pages/files in 3.1.4 to avoid PHP timeouts (recommended by WP Core when using wp_remote_get()).

That works fine in most cases, but in your particular use case, it does skip these images 😅

Are you familiar with adding code snippets to your website?

I added a filter around the new implementation, so you can easily remove this limit with the following code:

add_filter( 'ss_remote_get_args', function ( $args ) {
	unset( $args['limit_response_size'] );

	return $args;
} );

Cheers,
Patrick

Hey @jeanphilippegrasse,

I just checked the page you added on your initial ticket – most of these images should get copied even without the snippet.

I’ve set up a sample website and added high-res images from unsplash.com + some sample videos, which also worked fine on export.

So the problem might be something else.

What if you add the directory in Simply Static -> Settings -> General -> Additional Files and directories – are they copied on running the export?

Hey @jeanphilippegrasse,

can you share the debug log with us?

You can enable it in Simply Static -> Settings -> Misc -> Debugging Mode.

Then, run a new export, and you can download the file from Simply Static -> Generate.

This should give us more information on what is happening here and why these files might not be moved/exported successfully.

@jeanphilippegrasse Amazing!

I’ll go ahead and close this ticket now, but feel free to open a new one if you run into any other problems!

Cheers,
Patrick

• This reply was modified 5 months, 2 weeks ago by patrickposner.

Hey @sc250024,

thanks for your input!

I at least partly agree with you:

I think there should be a setting, and I will add one in the next update.

I don’t think it should be more than 2 MiB by default.

Here’s why:

wp_remote_get()

wp_remote_get() doesn’t give you a specific error if you hit a timeout, so we never know if the export failed because of a big file or some issue with the connection in general.

We have a lot of users on really cheap shared hosting providers, and they cause quite some work for us in support – skipping larger files results in more successful exports by default.

limitations of static hosting providers

This does come from the perspective of our pro version, but it also applies to the free version: almost all static hosting providers have a maximum file size limit and will deny requests (or even block you for some time) if you exceed it.

A couple of examples:

• Cloudflare Pages has a 2 MB limit
• GitHub Pages has a 2 MB limit
• Netlify has a 5 MB limit
• Algolia (the search integration) has a 2 MB limit

Other media files:

Offloading video files shouldn’t be done via Simply Static, or at least not by default.

I agree that there should be an option for professionals and devs (that’s why we added the filter), but not for the average user, as it drastically increases the risk of timeouts on the server.

We already batch process all of our processes, but now imagine someone has a 200MB video file uploaded to WordPress on an average hosting plan – adding that to the ZIP file will, in 99% of the cases, exceed the 30-second time limit most servers force and there would be no way to avoid that without requiring a running WP-Cron or the ability of background processes.

I don’t want to sound rude, but I figured sharing my thoughts on why we added it in the first place would help a lot in understanding it 🙂

Cheers,
Patrick

Hey @sc250024,

that was quick feedback! 😁

Yeah, in the case of AWS S3, there are, thankfully, no such limitations.

I also find it quite silly to have a 2MiB limit on various providers, but that’s often just the tip of the iceberg – in terms of the GitHub integration, we now have an entire class handling all sorts of different API limits (filesize, number of commits, number of files within a tree, auto-handling for blocked requests..).

Media files on S3

AWS S3 is a lot more forgiving here.

Our integration can easily transfer files up to 500 MB in size to S3 – so as long as you don’t have 5GB+ HD videos stored in WordPress, it should be fine to keep uploading them with Simply Static!

Cheers,
Patrick