Comments on: Dealing With PHP Memory Issues For Self-Hosted WordPress Blogs

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:49:03 +0000

Valeria, if Bluehost continues on their current trajectory, I wouldn’t be surprised if they start offering more advanced capabilities such as being able to have Apache reload configuration files on the fly.

Thanks for your encouragement.
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By: Valerie Cudnik

Valerie Cudnik — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:49:48 +0000

Nice simple explanation. Wish I knew how to restart the Apache server on localhost. BlueHost is horribly inconsistent on whether those changes take effect immediately. Makes me a bit crazy since I develop WordPress blogs for a living.
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By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:40:45 +0000

Bill, glad you found it useful. This kind of stuff just frustrates me incredibly when I can’t figure it out. Thanks for the RT.
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By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:37:59 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. I had been stuck with an older version of wp on bluehost for a while. It took a bit of searching to discover that php.ini.default is placed in the public_html folder. Once I figured that out, it was easy to open php.ini in a text editor. Thanks for the help! .-= Bill´s last blog ..WordPress Social Media Plugins That I Love =-.

By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:09:57 +0000

I just released the Whitepaper for this article:
http://website-in-a-weekend.net/wordpress-whitepapers/ww5-handling-wordpress-php-memory-problems-wordpress/

Glad it worked out for you. These issues can be really, really tricky sometimes.
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By: ZoSo

ZoSo — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:04:56 +0000

Wow! I am NOT a coder/programmer at all, but your instructions (which I followed to a tee) worked on my first attempt! I still have no idea what I just finished changing, but I just finished upgrading WP to 2.8.6 successfully on BlueHost (no more `memory error` messages!). Anyway, I really appreciate your effort with this simple tutorial. Thank you very much for saving me a LOT of trouble! Cheers!!

By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:31:01 +0000

Thanks!

This is another one of those issues where I still cross my fingers every time I tackle it. Sometimes the usual works, sometimes I have to go rooting around in individual php files.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:38:28 +0000

Hehe, I could have used this timely post about 2 weeks ago just before I attempted to update WordPress to version 2.8.2. I got stuck on the upgrade step essentially stranding me on 2.8.1 until I fixed the memory issue.

I’m a programmer so it wasn’t too hard for me to figure out what the problem was and how to fix it, but for someone new to WordPress this could be quite worrying for them.

Nice article, and well written.