Title: Plugin breaking WordPress features
Last modified: February 23, 2021

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# Plugin breaking WordPress features

 *  Resolved [21cscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/21cscott/)
 * (@21cscott)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-wordpress-features/)
 * I’m working on recreating a school’s website and your slider plugin works great
   for the full-width home page slider I was looking for! There are a few problems
   that occur when I activate this plugin, also keep in mind that I’m using my own
   custom theme and this is the first time that I’m creating a theme so that could
   be a possible reason why this isn’t working.
 * When I go to my “news” page which is the page where all of the posts are displayed,
   the page displays this: [https://prnt.sc/104u9fy](https://prnt.sc/104u9fy)
 * As soon as I disable the Smart Slider 3 plugin, it works fine. One other error
   I have is when I try to click on “customize” under the appearance settings I 
   also get an error message here: [https://prnt.sc/104ubib](https://prnt.sc/104ubib)
   
   Also, this error goes away when I disable the plugin.

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 *  Plugin Support [Laszlo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laszloszalvak/)
 * (@laszloszalvak)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-wordpress-features/#post-14090413)
 * Hi [@21cscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/21cscott/)
 * The error messages appearing in your screenshots are just general error messages
   which indicate that there is either a PHP error or a server error, e.g. when 
   a server limitation is being reached.
 * To find out the actual problem, you should enable error reporting on your site
   over your wp-config.php like we suggest here:
    [https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1949-error-reporting#error-wp](https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1949-error-reporting#error-wp)
   Then you should go to the pages where you can see the problem occur and refresh
   the page. This will generate an error log. If you did the way it is suggested
   in the documentation, then the error log will be called “php-error.log” and it
   will appear in the same folder where your wp-config.php is located.
 * I could imagine that the problem is may related to a memory limit problem. If
   it is then you may find an error in the log something like: “Allowed memory size
   of 67108864 bytes exhausted”. If this is the case, then you or your host should
   increase the memory limit as we suggest here:
    [https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1736-common-server-errors#memory_limit](https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1736-common-server-errors#memory_limit)
 * If you can not find such error in the error log, and you can not identify the
   problem either, then feel free to open a support ticket here:
    [https://smartslider3.com/contact-us/support/?ref=https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-wordpress-features/](https://smartslider3.com/contact-us/support/?ref=https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-wordpress-features/)
   and send us a link where we can check your error log.
 * Best regards,
    Laszlo.
 *  Thread Starter [21cscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/21cscott/)
 * (@21cscott)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-wordpress-features/#post-14095807)
 * Hey [@laszloszalvak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laszloszalvak/)
 * It most definitely isn’t the memory limit, I can see the site is only using about
   20% of the total ram usage. I created the wp-config.php and added the code you
   suggested but I’m still not getting a file generated to show the errors. I could
   open a ticket but not sure how useful that’ll be for you without access to the
   error log.
 * Thanks for the quick response and sorry for the late reply. Please let me know
   if you have any other suggestions and I appreciate the help!
 * Here is a screenshot of my wp-config.php. I followed along with the article you
   sent but it doesn’t seem to be working. [https://prnt.sc/105oj96](https://prnt.sc/105oj96)
 *  Plugin Support [Laszlo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laszloszalvak/)
 * (@laszloszalvak)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-wordpress-features/#post-14095874)
 * Hi [@21cscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/21cscott/)
 * In your screenshot, it seems as if this wp-config.php file would be located inside
   your theme’s folder, but the real wp-config.php file should be located in the
   root folder of your WordPress installation, where you can find the folders like“
   wp-admin”, “wp-content” and “wp-includes”.
    That is the file where you should
   actually add the code to enable the error reporting.
 * Note: the WP_DEBUG constant is usually already defined there with false value,
   so you don’t need to add that again, you just need to modify its value to true.
 * If you still can not see any errors after making these modifications and checking
   the page with the problem, then please open a support ticket:
    [https://smartslider3.com/contact-us/support/?ref=https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-wordpress-features/](https://smartslider3.com/contact-us/support/?ref=https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-wordpress-features/)
   and we will check this problem on your site.
 *  Thread Starter [21cscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/21cscott/)
 * (@21cscott)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-wordpress-features/#post-14097464)
 * [@laszloszalvak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laszloszalvak/)
    Thank you!
   Yes I know see these two errors.
 * Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 29360128) (tried to allocate 65536 bytes)
   in /home/dcts/public_html/dcts/wp-content/plugins/smart-slider-3/Nextend/SmartSlider3/
   Platform/WordPress/Integration/Gutenberg/Gutenberg.php on line 14
 * Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 29360128) (tried to allocate 65536 bytes)
   in /home/dcts/public_html/dcts/wp-includes/class-wp-fatal-error-handler.php on
   line 40
 * My memory usage is about 60%, is this a setting with the plugin or do I need 
   more memory for the server?
 *  [Ramona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nextend_ramona/)
 * (@nextend_ramona)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-wordpress-features/#post-14097485)
 * Hi [@21cscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/21cscott/)
 * This error message means that the memory limit on your server was reached. Contact
   your host and ask them to increase it.
 * Smart Slider 3 requires at least 64MB of memory:
    [https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1716-system-requirements](https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1716-system-requirements)
   but your site might need much more, depending on the amount of plugins you have.
 * Try to ask your host to double the memory_limit (e.g. if you have 64MB now, ask
   them to set it to 128MB).
 *  Thread Starter [21cscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/21cscott/)
 * (@21cscott)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-wordpress-features/#post-14097502)
 * [@laszloszalvak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laszloszalvak/)
 * I fixed a different error that was printed after enabling WP_DEBUG.
 * I still get this same error on my “news” page which is the posts page.
 * Here is a link to the page. [https://www.mydcts.org/dcts/news/](https://www.mydcts.org/dcts/news/)
 *  Thread Starter [21cscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/21cscott/)
 * (@21cscott)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-wordpress-features/#post-14097601)
 * Hey [@laszloszalvak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laszloszalvak/)
 * The server has 2GB of RAM, after restarting the server I no longer get this error.
   Though I still am having issues with the news page. As soon as I disable your
   plugin it works fine.
 * Here’s a screenshot of the memory, it hasn’t gone over 70% usage. [https://prnt.sc/105v0bd](https://prnt.sc/105v0bd)
 *  [Ramona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nextend_ramona/)
 * (@nextend_ramona)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-wordpress-features/#post-14097664)
 * Hi [@21cscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/21cscott/)
 * This error message:
 * > Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 29360128) (tried to allocate 65536 bytes)
   > in /home/dcts/public_html/dcts/wp-content/plugins/smart-slider-3/Nextend/SmartSlider3/
   > Platform/WordPress/Integration/Gutenberg/Gutenberg.php on line 14
 * Happens because your server’s memory limit was reached. If it’s indeed set to
   2GB then something is limiting it down. Create an info.php file:
    [https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1736-common-server-errors#memory_limit](https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1736-common-server-errors#memory_limit)
   and check the value of the `memory_limit`. If it’s not the 2GB that’s supposed
   to be set, contact your host about this problem, because there will be some kind
   of misconfiguration.
 *  Thread Starter [21cscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/21cscott/)
 * (@21cscott)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-wordpress-features/#post-14097696)
 * [https://www.mydcts.org/info.php](https://www.mydcts.org/info.php)
 * Yes, you would be correct. Thank you so much for your help once again. I’ll have
   to get in contact with them and I’ll keep you updated!
 *  Thread Starter [21cscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/21cscott/)
 * (@21cscott)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-wordpress-features/#post-14097895)
 * Alright, so I got the memory_limit changed to 2G. That did fix the issue where
   I couldn’t use the customization under appearance in WordPress, this must’ve 
   been due to the memory limitation.
 * I’m still having an error with the news page. I’ve enabled DEBUG though I cannot
   find the error logs files. I checked both in the wp-contents folder and also 
   in the root folder.
 *  [Ramona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nextend_ramona/)
 * (@nextend_ramona)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-wordpress-features/#post-14097920)
 * Hi [@21cscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/21cscott/)
 * If you switch to a default WordPress theme (like Twenty Twenty) and turn off 
   all plugins but Smart Slider 3, does your News page load?
    If it loads like that,
   start turning on all your plugins and see if you can enable them without seeing
   the problem again.
 * If everything is fine using a default WordPress theme then the problem happens
   because of the theme. Check the Theme Developer Handbook:
    [https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/)
   and make sure your theme follows the best practices.
 *  Thread Starter [21cscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/21cscott/)
 * (@21cscott)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-wordpress-features/#post-14097943)
 * Yes, it works then. It’s something with my theme I guess I need to figure it 
   out.
 * I won’t be working on this until tomorrow. My shift is over. Thanks, [@nextend_ramona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nextend_ramona/)
   and [@laszloszalvak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laszloszalvak/) for 
   all the help today. I appreciate it and I think I’ll be able to use this plugin
   once I figure out this final issue.

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