Hi,
What was the error logged in the PHP error log?
The most likely cause, if it was across the whole backend, is that your website is running very close to the hosting company’s allowed memory limit, and that activating one more plugin tipped it over that limit.
David
The last error in the log was the following.
[30-May-2018 20:02:40 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 96993280) (tried to allocate 12288 bytes) in /home2/talschne/public_html/simplydoit.net/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/params/params_preset/params_preset.php on line 39
Would this match your suspicions that the cause was memory limit?
I do think that my boss added a plugin, or a few, to the site recently.
But, would this happen to an existing plugin? We’ve had updraftplus active for a while.
My apologies. I don’t know fully about all of the technical details with this area.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. Much appreciated. 🙂
Kenny
Hi Kenny,
Yes, as the error message says, you have an out-of-memory problem. Which plugin appears in the error message is to some extent random; it depends on the order in which WP chooses to load plugins, and what exact operations need to be performed by those plugins at a particular time, on a particular page-load. Here’s how to increase your WP memory limit: https://updraftplus.com/faqs/deal-fatal-error-allowed-memory-size-errors/
David
Thanks so much for the information!
I had no idea.
Thanks!
You’re welcome! If you like UpdraftPlus, please do give us a 5-star review – https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/updraftplus/reviews/?rate=5#new-post . (Or if we’re not worth it, instead say here why not… reviews less than 5 stars bring our average down!).
David
