{"id":512,"date":"2020-06-03T11:59:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T18:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=512"},"modified":"2020-06-03T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T19:00:10","slug":"how-to-increase-the-wordpress-php-memory-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"How to Increase the WordPress PHP Memory Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>On many hosting providers the default&nbsp;<strong>PHP Memory<\/strong>&nbsp;is usually&nbsp;<strong>32<\/strong>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<strong>64 MB<\/strong>, however for&nbsp;<strong>WordPress<\/strong>&nbsp;that may not be enough sometimes, especially if you have a lot of plugins installed on your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recommend to increase the memory to\u00a0<strong>256 MB<\/strong> or more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How to change the WordPress Memory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most common solution to this problem is to edit the file \u201c<strong>wp-config.php<\/strong>\u201d from your WordPress directory and to add the following line somewhere at the end:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">define( 'WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M' );<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>However, there is an easier method, by using the plugin&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-config-file-editor\/\">WP Config File Editor<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m8q2a8f3.stackpathcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pasted_Image_21_06_2018__12_07.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-139062\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Just install the plugin, activate it, and then go to the&nbsp;<strong>WPCF Editor<\/strong>&nbsp;page and simply change the value for&nbsp;<strong>Max Memory limit<\/strong>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<strong>256M<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m8q2a8f3.stackpathcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pasted_Image_21_06_2018__12_14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-139063\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: If this solution does not work for you, then this means your web hosting service provider does not allow WordPress to increase PHP memory limit. 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