Easy WordPress Memory Fix

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 at 8:42 am

More is now known about the WordPress fatal memory error message I was getting.

As I wrote in my post Best Web Hosting Service I was getting a blank WordPress page or a fatal error memory message when activating plug-ins. All starting after up-dating to the new 2.9 WordPress.

While doing research for this post, I’m finding out other WordPress bloggers are having the same problem. And also problems with the auto-up-date feature. Interesting, because I’m purring right along with the automatic up-dating.

Found-out my memory error problems was happening because the new WordPress 2.9 is more of a memory hog.

It’s behind what’s causing my error messages – but don’t run away from updating Wordpress. To fix, all you have to do is make a simple change in your PHP memory size, then forget about it.

I’ve done the first way, and today discovered a second way and did it aswell.

1. Change your php.ini file memory_limit from 32M to 64M.

memory_limit = 64M

2. To-day I discovered in wp-settings change 32M to 64M as:

if ( !defined(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’) )
define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘64M’);

Cheers