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Best answer

How to solve "Upload media in Wordpres: The app did not respond in time"?

  • August 12, 2020
  • 5 replies
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K

I am trying to upload an image from Cloudconvert to Wordpress, create a post and attach the image as featured media. When trying to upload the image (png) to Wordpress I run into a timeout error: "The app did not respond in-time. It may or may not have completed successfully."

The image almost always uploads to Wordpress successfully, but I can't attach it as a featured media in a post because I don't get the output data which includes the image id that I need to be able to attach the image to a post as featured media.

Does anybody know what could be causing the problem and a way to work around it?

Best answer by Kurios

It seems that it was a Wordpress plugin what was causing the error. I was using the plugin "Smush" to compress my images and when I deactivated it the zap worked perfectly without an error.

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      andywingrave
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      • andywingraveZapier Solution Partner
      • Zapier Solution Partner
      • August 13, 2020

      Just by way of testing this, have you tried reducing the size of image and seeing if that makes a difference? If it does, it might be worth amending the size of the image before uploading it.

      K
      • KuriosBeginner
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      • August 13, 2020

      Hi Andy,

       

      Thanks for your answer. I have tried using tinypng to compress the image before uploading it, but I still get the same error.

      andywingrave
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      • andywingraveZapier Solution Partner
      • Zapier Solution Partner
      • August 13, 2020

      That’s very frustrating. I think this sounds like a bug, honestly - So might be a good idea to either reach out to Zapier, or even the developer of the Zapier WP app to see if they can help you/

       

      Sorry I couldn’t be of more help here. IF you get a solution, would you mind posting it back in the thread?

      K
      • KuriosBeginner
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      • August 13, 2020

      It seems that it was a Wordpress plugin what was causing the error. I was using the plugin "Smush" to compress my images and when I deactivated it the zap worked perfectly without an error.

      nicksimard
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      • nicksimardZapier Staff
      • Zapier Staff
      • August 14, 2020

      Thanks for letting us know, @Kurios! Glad you were able to figure it out :)

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