How To Fix Memory Exhausted Error in WordPress – Increase PHP Memory

Jun 9, 2020
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WordPress Memory Exhausted Error – Increase PHP Memory

Introduction

One of the common problems that WordPress users face when installing or updating a plugin is the ” Memory Limit ” error. The error, in general show up as “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7896 bytes) in ….” The reason why you get this error is that your site uses the memory setted by default.

Note: You can see the tutorial video at the end of the article.

What Is The WordPress " Memory Exhausted " Error?

As you already might know that every websites need a wordpress hosting server to work properly. Web servers are just like a computer. They need memory to be able to run many applications properly at the same time. So, hosting providers allocate memory to different applications, including PHP.

When the default memory limit is exceeded, you’ll get the following error that you see in visual 1.

Visual 1

No need to worry at all, as we’ll tell you how to increase the php memory limit. With a few simple process, you can increase the memory limit and get rid of this error.

How to increase the PHP memory limit in WordPress?

What you need to do to resolve this issue is to make an edition in the wp-config.php file, where you can access via FTP protocal or in your WordPress Panel from Appearance > Theme Editor

Once you get access to the wp-config.php file using any of the way above, you should make sure to insert the following snippet anywhere in the wp-config.php file and make sure you saved it.

define( ‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘256M’ );

Important: If the above methods not resolve the memory error, contact your hosting providers and request an increase in the default php memory limit.