Comments on: Fix: WordPress Memory Exhausted Error – Increase PHP Memory

By: aidilgoh

aidilgoh — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:10:58 +0000

Tried placing this at the end of the wp-config.php and didnt work.

However, placing it on top right after the

By: PatrickTyrus

PatrickTyrus — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:49:12 +0000

this was a great help, but as you noted it could easily be a plugin, or as someone mentioned it could be a memory leak.

And as others have pointed out, there are memory settings for a reason, some hosts will cut your services if you try to circumvent them.

Is there a way to check on what's eating memory?

I'll be searching, but this is something that should be listed under related posts, or as a note and link at the end regarding one of the "numerous solutions for it". Going for the "simplest one" might get you through the day, but is may not be a good long term solution as it may cover up the real problem and delay the inevitable.

By: wpbeginner

wpbeginner — Mon, 30 May 2011 05:56:44 +0000

@shally1584 There is no = << in our code. So are you sure that you are pasting our code as an independent function and not as part of something else.

By: shally1584

shally1584 — Mon, 30 May 2011 05:54:40 +0000

hi.i tried to adjust memory limit and got this error

‘Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘=’ in /home/amanerdm/public_html/beaverealty.com/wp-config.php on line 62′

pls help fix this.thanx.

By: Luna

Luna — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:28:08 +0000

Thank you for this post… I had a couple of category / archive query pages that were throwing this error after I upgraded to WordPress 3.1. I was just about to re-write the queries until I found your post in a Google search.

You saved me a lot of work and headaches

By: Kdb

Kdb — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:46:04 +0000

I ended up having to switch hosting companies because I couldn’t get my current one to increase the memory from 32MB to, well, anything more. Pretty sad. Took a bit of hassle to transfer three WordPress sites (and multiple other sites), but it was worth it. My current host offers 128MB and my sites are working SO much better. I can actually add plug-ins.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:17:58 +0000

Hello
I tried the fix by adding the line immediately after the opening >php tag (line 1)
define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);

It did not work for me BUT
I placed the line with comments for my own use on (as it happens) line 22 and it worked.

I am testing this procedure on a test WP site using Twentyten 1.2 Theme

/home/par*****/public_html/wp-config.php

Line 22 /** WP memory limit Note it does not work when placed immediately after line 1 */
define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);

By: Trunks

Trunks — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:55:12 +0000

This worked for me! Thanks!!!

Create PHP.INI in the wp-admin folder, with the line “memory_limit = 128M;”

I changed all the other methods, and this was the only one that seemed to work.

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:33:18 +0000

Sounds like a host issue rather than WP 3.0 issue. We still have this trick working on our clients.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 12:53:24 +0000

This trick doesn’t work for me ever since WP 3.

what I found worked was to create a PHP.INI file in the wp-admin folder with the line:

memory_limit = 128M

(or whatever you want to make it)