If you’re running a number of memory hungry plugins, you might exceed the 32mb worth of memory allotted by the standard WordPress install. I’ve used an e-commerce solution plugin before that used significantly more memory than the others.
So, if you try to activate a WordPress plugin, but can’t, due to a memory allocation problem, you can either modify the wp-settings.php script, or, if that has no effect, increase the ‘memory_limit’ variable in the php .ini file. If you can access the php .ini file yourself, great, if not, contact your host.
To change the wp-settings.php file, open it up and locate the following lines:
if ( !defined('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT') )
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '32M');
Now change ’32MB’ to ’64MB’, so it reads:
if ( !defined('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT') )
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');
Again, if this doesn’t and you can’t change the php .ini file yourself, contact your host. Incidentally, if you’d like to see your ‘memory_limit’ allocation, pop the following code into a php web page and upload it to the server:
<? php echo phpinfo(); ?>
Tags: php, php function, plugin, wordpress
