Dennis Jlussi

WP Showroom and PHP memory limit

I found a nice new gallery plugin for Wordpress: WP Showroom. It looks really nice and is easy configurable and customizable.

But after installation, I had an error message whenever I tried to access any album settings:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in [...]/wp-content/plugins/WPshowroom/inc.thumb.php on line 1370

I commented out parts of the inc.thumb.php, but then the error message “moved” to another file.

My Wordpress installation consumes pretty much memory, so I’ve set 64M as PHP memory limit in my Apache web server config for this site. I set it even to 512M for testing, but the error message remained.

At the end, I figured out a line in WP Showroom’s request.ajax.php file:

@ini_set(‘memory_limit’, ‘32M’);

This line is at the beginning. It overwrites the PHP memory limit set in the Apache config and lowers it to – in my case, insufficient – 32M. I think, the line is in there to make more memory available, but if the setting is already above 32M, it has the opposite effect. I just commented out that one line, and now, it works fine.

I’ll upload pictures for my albums soon, so all pictures that have been there before (and some new) will be available.