June 19, 2010 This is a common problem among WordPress users upgrading to 3.0 since the package size is bigger than previous versions. You may see something like this:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted
Solution: Increase Memory Limit:
One way to do this is to add this line to your wp-config.php file:
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');
Another solution that some may be more comfortable with is to install a plugin to help you increase the memory limit. Check out Memory Limit. You can install and activate it for your upgrade. Then you can deactivate it afterwards if you want to.
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Thanks for a nice tip. I tried to use the Memory Bump plugin, but it caused errors, so I deleted it. The line in wp-config -file did the trick.
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Thanks for a nice tip. i will try
Neither way works, any other tips?
Keeps getting stuck on “Download from…”
I had wp 2.9.2 set to use 50 mb.
after updating to 3.0, my memory has changed to use 256mb.
I cant seem to change it back?
any advice on how?
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Sometimes this way doesn’t works, so there is another way is to add line
php_value memory_limit 64M
to .htaccess In my case that was effective.