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Can't activate Wordpress plugins?

by ProfitPilot Banned
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I have a website or Wordpress/Buddypress which has been working fine. But recently, I cannot activate new plugins. When I click activate, I get a blank white screen and then have to manually remove the plugin with FTP. I also can't change the navigation menu order, I get the white screen and the menu does not update. Any idea why this is happening?
#activate #plugins #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author WP Leads Press
    Well, that is no good!

    First question, are you running the latest version of WP and are your plugins up to date?

    Also, check your memory limits for PHP on your server, you can increase your memory limits for PHP processing in your wp-config.php file.

    Adding the line:

    define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M');

    This will increase to 256M for processing PHP, provided your host allows you to have that much and to make changes yourself to PHP config settings.

    I usually run my sites with 512M for PHP.

    What may be happening is your server is running our of memory for PHP when you are trying to activate your plugins and depending on your server settings you may not actually see an error displayed, some bozo server admins setup in such a way that your site has a fatal error, no display to browser client and you may not even see an error log...

    Ridiculous... for sure, does it happen often... more than it should!

    If you happen to have WooCommerce installed on your site you can easily check your PHP memory allocation under the 'system status' section of Woocommerce .


    Anyway, I hope this helps!


    ~Rick
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    • Profile picture of the author ProfitPilot
      Banned
      Thank you! I will have to try that.. where in the config file do I add that line?

      Also, I have not updated to the very newest Wordpress, I'm concerned about it messing up my website and possibly making certain plugins not work... is that possible?
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  • Profile picture of the author ProfitPilot
    Banned
    Great.. now I can't even update pages or posts. I just get the white screen when I click update.
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