Title: 3.9.1 Fatal Error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

---

# 3.9.1 Fatal Error

 *  [Fredric50](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredric50/)
 * (@fredric50)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/391-fatal-error/)
 * I updated to 3.9.1 two days ago. From the front the site look and acts ok. But
   when I try to update a “page” I get the following error message. I am not in 
   any way a wp wiz kid and if you don’t explain it to me on a 3rd grade level I
   am afraid I will not understand hoe to fix the problem.
    The second problem is
   when I add a post I do it under the “text” tap but there are some thing I do 
   under the “visual” tap but now when I click it, it does not respond.
 * Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   122880 bytes) in /home/sderot/public_html/wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 173

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

 *  [2bearstudio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2bearstudio/)
 * (@2bearstudio)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/391-fatal-error/#post-5092987)
 * As the error message says” memory … exhausted “. Copy & paste following code 
   into wp-config.php:
 * /** Increase WP memory limit **/
    define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘256M’);
 *  Thread Starter [Fredric50](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredric50/)
 * (@fredric50)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/391-fatal-error/#post-5093247)
 * I am sorry it took so long for me to get back to you … But I don’t have a clue
   were to even begin to fix it. Is there someone @ WP that can help me with the
   repair… I REALLLLLY need to update out site and can’t

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

The topic ‘3.9.1 Fatal Error’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [fatal error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/fatal-error/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Fredric50](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredric50/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/391-fatal-error/#post-5093247)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics