Increase WordPress memory limit

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If your WordPress installation gets too big a common error message is the “Fatal Error: Allowed memory size…” error.

This error message is a result of WordPress exceeding it’s predetermined memory limit. Too many large plugins or too much content on your blog or website will trigger this error message.

By going into your wp-settings.php file on your sever you can easily fix this.

Wordpress sets its memory limits within the wp-settings.php file. All that has to be done is change the memory limit from “32M” to “64M”.

Here’s what you need to do.:

  • Open wp-settings.php in a code editor or notepad. This file is in the root directory of your WordPress installation
  • Change the “32″ to “64″
  • Save the file and FTP it to your server
  • If 64 isn’t enough then try 128

Another setting you can change is in the wp-config.php file.   Add: define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);  right below <?php at the top of the file.

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