Thanks for your patience – I am traveling and have limited Internet access.
I am not sure how to help – I haven’t had any other reports of this nature. Do you have access to the error logs on your server or any other way to more clearly identify the problem? It sounds like a corrupted file or some other problem with the download itself, or perhaps an interaction with some other plugin. When I return home on September 10 I might be able to give you more ideas to try.
I regret the problem you’re having and would like to help if I can get more information. Thanks for your understanding.
I finally figured it out when looking at the server logs. Last time I looked I apparently didn’t notice but hopefully this serves as a hint for anyone else running into this (it will affect many plugins). I was getting PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 41943040 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7680 bytes) and various messages like that. I was wondering why the entire admin CP wouldn’t load but that was because every time I tried to load it, WordPress was trying to finish the installation of the plugin and there wasn’t enough memory being allocated. I upped my PHP limit to 1GB (my server has 8 to work with) and now we’re good to go but pretty much anything higher than the deafult 32M would be fine.
So to anyone reading this, if you are getting this error, it is because the PHP memory limit is too low. You’ll need to look that up for whatever server you have or whatever control panel you’re using.
That’s great news; thanks for the update and for the tips on increasing memory size.
It occurred to me that the PHP memory limit is, of course, a global setting. There’s nothing specific to MLA that causes the problem; it’s the total memory use of WordPress, the theme and all of the plugins that finally goes over the limit. It’s something to watch for whenever you install a new release or add something to your configuration.
