Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted – Yeh I know…. BUT

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    rooonga · Member ·

    Hi everyone,

    I really hope you can help me with this problem. If I try to use the dashboard I get the infamous error “
    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /home/hypnosis/public_html/wp-admin/menu-header.php on line 100″

    I tried the following:

    1. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini
    If your line shows 32M try 64M:
    memory_limit = 128M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (128MB)

    2. If you don’t have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
    php_value memory_limit 128M

    3. Try adding this line to your wp-config.php file:
    Increasing memory allocated to PHP
    define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘128M’);

    And step 4 said talk to my webhost – which I have been doing for 2 days now!! I was using free hosting using 000wehost.com, and they couldn’t fix so told me if I upgrade to their paid service they would then be able to help.

    However – what a crock of sh!t that turned out to be. After suggesting i do the above, they then said they cannot help and I should go to the wordpress forums – so here I am – begging for help.

    Can anyone here help please?

    Oh – background info – the problem started when I let someone do some seo work on my site – they decided that my site should be upgraded to the newest version of wordpress, and this is where the problem started. My site can be seen normally for browsers, but as soon as I try any admin functions I get that error!

    Oh also – my host limit is actually 128MB, and there are no scripts that come even close to this – 1 of the errors that was in the error log file was only 78 bytes!

    Thanks for reading, look forward to answers.

    Oh – 1 last thing – If I were to just unzip and FTP wordpress back over would I lose everything I have already done on my site?

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