Title: plugin fatal error since 4.2.1 update
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# plugin fatal error since 4.2.1 update

 *  [lmissenda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmissenda/)
 * (@lmissenda)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fatal-error-since-421-update/)
 * We are having a problem since the 4.2.1 wordpress update.
 * We have the following error that shows up in our admin side of the widgets.
 * Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   32 bytes) in /home/washtest/public_html/wp-includes/compat.php on line 49
 * When I deactivate the display widget plugin the error message goes away.
 * We rely on this plugin for our site pretty heavily.
 * Thanks for any help you can provide.
 * Lisa
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-widgets/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-widgets/)

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 *  [juancarbonel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juancarbonel/)
 * (@juancarbonel)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fatal-error-since-421-update/#post-6071769)
 * Hi, you can find a work arround here!
    [http://www.juancarbonel.com/plugin-alternative-fix-display-widgets/](http://www.juancarbonel.com/plugin-alternative-fix-display-widgets/)
 *  Thread Starter [lmissenda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmissenda/)
 * (@lmissenda)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fatal-error-since-421-update/#post-6071772)
 * Thanks, we are going to give this a try today. I really appreciate your work 
   on this and I will let you know if it works.
 *  Thread Starter [lmissenda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmissenda/)
 * (@lmissenda)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fatal-error-since-421-update/#post-6071773)
 * Juancarbonel
    That worked but I had to change how line 605 was commented out 
   to /* …*/ instead of // since // gave me a fatal error message for line 613. 
   Once I did that it worked like a charm.
 * Thank you so much for the help.
 * Lisa
 *  [juancarbonel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juancarbonel/)
 * (@juancarbonel)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fatal-error-since-421-update/#post-6071774)
 * I have updated the post, nice to know that it help! Regards!
 * Juan
 *  Thread Starter [lmissenda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmissenda/)
 * (@lmissenda)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fatal-error-since-421-update/#post-6071775)
 * Just noticed that commenting out like that eliminated my pages. So I removed 
   the 605 // completely and seems to be right now. Thanks again.
 *  [juancarbonel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juancarbonel/)
 * (@juancarbonel)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fatal-error-since-421-update/#post-6071776)
 * With this it should work properly,
 * (593) /*$saved_details = get_transient( $this->transient_name );
    if ( $saved_details){
   foreach ( $saved_details as $k => $d ) { if ( empty($this->{$k}) ) { $this->{
   $k} = $d; }
 * unset($k);
    unset($d); } }*/
 * (605) //if ( empty($this->pages) ) {
    $this->pages = get_posts( array( ‘post_type’
   => ‘page’, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘numberposts’ => -1, ‘orderby’ => ‘title’,‘
   order’ => ‘ASC’, ‘fields’ => array(‘ID’, ‘name’), )); //}

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 * Last reply from: [juancarbonel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juancarbonel/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fatal-error-since-421-update/#post-6071776)
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