Title: WordPress Upgrade Cause Error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress Upgrade Cause Error

 *  [bestcssdesigns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bestcssdesigns/)
 * (@bestcssdesigns)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-upgrade-cause-error/)
 * Hi,
 * I was upgrading to the latest wordpress about a week or two ago. Then when I 
   go to the wp-admin URL, I get this error.
 * Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   30720 bytes) in /home/accountname/public_html/wp-includes/locale.php on line 
   122
 * Please help

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-upgrade-cause-error/#post-1961390)
 * To start troubleshooting, you may try (if you already have not tried):
 * -deactivating ALL plugins temporarily to narrow down and possibly fix the problem.
   If the problem goes away, activate them individually (one-by-one) to find the
   culprit.
 * If you don’t have access to your admin area, try deactivating them [manually](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   via FTP or phpMyAdmin.
 * -switching to the default theme (“twentyten”) for a moment by renaming your current
   theme’s folder in wp-content/themes. The idea is to force WordPress to fall back
   to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific issue.
 * If you don’t have access to your admin area, then access your server via FTP 
   or SFTP or whatever file management application your host provides.
 * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or phpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause
   problems (because the hooks remain unless plugins completelt removed).
 * -If the above steps do not resolve the issue, Download WordPress again and replace
   your copies of everything **EXCEPT** the wp-config.php file and the /wp-content/
   directory with fresh copies. This should replace your core files without changing
   your content and settings in wp-config.php file and the /wp-content/ directory.
 * -if that does not resolve the issue, try [increasing memory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP)
   available for php.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-upgrade-cause-error/#post-1961390)
 * Status: not resolved

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