Title: Need Help Please
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Need Help Please

 *  Resolved [silkphoenix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silkphoenix/)
 * (@silkphoenix)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-please-18/)
 * Hello,
 * I just updated to the latest WP 3.3. When I tried to go to different options:
   Updates / Settings / Plug-ins or anything, I received the following error:
 * Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   122880 bytes) in /data/19/1/161/125/1976940/user/2159316/htdocs/Blog/wp-admin/
   includes/menu.php on line 126
 * I am new to WP so I have no idea how to add more memory on line 126. Could someone
   please guide me how to do it? As I said, I tried to go to Settings, it gave me
   the error right away.
 * Any suggestions/commentions are much appreciated.
 * Thank you.

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 *  [AimeeTheGreat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aimeethegreat/)
 * (@aimeethegreat)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-please-18/#post-2443772)
 * Use an FTP program and go to the WordPress. Open up wp-config.php and at the 
   top add something like this
 * define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘256M’);
 * It’s gotta be at the top or it don’t work.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-please-18/#post-2443773)
 * Try [increasing the memory available to PHP](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/253495#post-1017842).
 *  Thread Starter [silkphoenix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silkphoenix/)
 * (@silkphoenix)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-please-18/#post-2443809)
 * Hello AimeeTheGreat,
 * I went to wp-config.php and added
 * define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘256M’);
 * on the very top (above <?php
 * and when I went to my wp, I received this error:
 * define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘256M’);
    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432
   bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /data/19/1/161/125/1976940/
   user/2159316/htdocs/Blog/wp-admin/includes/menu.php on line 126
 * So what did I do wrong? Maybe I added to the wrong place? As I said, I am new
   to WP. Thank you.
 *  Thread Starter [silkphoenix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silkphoenix/)
 * (@silkphoenix)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-please-18/#post-2443814)
 * OK, I figured it out. I added
 * define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘256M’);
 * right underneath <?php
 * and now I am able access all the options on the Dashboard.
 * Thank you all for your help and patience. I’ll learn as I go.
 *  [vdaniel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vdaniel/)
 * (@vdaniel)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-please-18/#post-2444403)
 * I had the same problem, solved by this post, thank you!
 *  [Angelina North](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angietepetl/)
 * (@angietepetl)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-please-18/#post-2444415)
 * Wow! this has been the easiest and quickest post to solve my problem. Thanks!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 5 participants
 * Last reply from: [Angelina North](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angietepetl/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-please-18/#post-2444415)
 * Status: resolved

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