Fix for Wordpress “Allowed memory size exhausted” fatal error

Fix for WordPress “Allowed memory size exhausted” fatal error

While trying to upgrade a few WordPress plugins, I got this error message:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7680 bytes)

After struggling with trying to fix this, I found a really easy solution – increase the WordPress memory allocation size from 32 MB to 64 MB. To do this, edit your wp-settings.php and change line 13 from:

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '32M');

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

Simple, easy and delicious. No more memory issues for any plugin upgrades!

Written by Trevin

May 9th, 2009 at 4:10 pm

Posted in Technology

Tagged with fix, plugins, software, Technology, wordpress

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Thank you sooooo much for this fix.

James Bao

27 Jun 09 at 11:55 pm
Thanks for posting this. It had me stumped on my upgrade to WP 2.8.2

William Haun

31 Jul 09 at 6:36 am
Well done Trevin. Bluehost support had me messing with php.ini via the world’s most convoluted email, but this did the trick immediately.

Mike Torres

30 Nov 09 at 5:29 pm
Thank you for posting this. You saved me a few hours of coding.

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1 Apr 10 at 12:33 am