Should I Increase Memory in My Plugin?

  • Allen

    (@amweiss98)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,
    I wrote a plugin that’s been out for about 1 year and now doing some testing on an upgrade on my local machine. Out of the blue, I just started getting this error (not as a result of any coding change or adding plugins)

    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 80 bytes) in /Users/me/Dropbox/My Webs/wordpress/wp-includes/class-simplepie.php on line 14866

    Asking users to increase their memory doesn’t make sense since plugin users aren’t always that tech savvy.

    So, I’m wondering if I can do this for them by adding something like

    (‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’128M’)

    But is this ok to do..meaning changing their wordpress memory limit just for my plugin? Is there something else you’d suggest?

    Thanks,
    Allen

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  • Ayman

    (@aymanalzarrad)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Using

    (‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’128M’)

    will limit the whole website… So why don’t you try this:
    Put this line of code in the main file of your plugin so when the plugin runs will load the limits directly.
    ini_set('memory_limit', '128M');

    Thread Starter Allen

    (@amweiss98)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks Ayman…will need to think about this since I’ve seen on some other sites that increasing the memory is bad form for wordpress plugin developers…might need to do this on a case by case basis when a user has a problem.

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