Fatal Error

For the past five years I have been using WordPress, either on a local school Mac OSX server, or with Bluehost and Surpass hosting my WordPress blogs. Never had many problems that I did not cause myself. This year I have been lucky as we have great ICT systems people that make our wordpressmu install simply work.

When I upgraded to WordPress 2.8 on this blog, however, I started getting a number of the following:

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

I could get rid of the error by deactivating plugins but was looking for a solution that allowed me to keep all the plugins I wanted active. I assumed at this point that the issue was with my service provider as anything I googled lead me to information on increasing memory limits using a php.ini file. Noting that the allowed memory size was 32 MB I changed the memory size to 64 MB. I did this in several directories but ended up with the same error.

After adding WordPress to the search I found, in the customer support area of another provider, that adding define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’,’64′); to the wp-config.php would solve the problem. Sure enough the problem went away.

Reminds me of the flowchart I posted a while back. It’s all out there, I guess you just have to look!