PHP Fatal Error

[bookingmcmaster]

Hello,

I am receiving this error that is causing the events calendar not to load.

[02-Jun-2017 15:35:39 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 72 bytes) in /home1/mcmaste3/public_html/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/src/Tribe/Template/Month.php on line 715

I have updated all plugins and wordpress and swapped to the twenty fourteen theme to check for theme conflicts.

I have a feeling the issue could be due to the number of events – we have over 1300 (non recurring).

Any insight on the issue would be great!

Best,
Heather

[Victor]

Hi Heather!

Thanks for reaching out to us! 🙂

Let me help you with that.

As a first step, I would recommend you try increasing the memory allocated to PHP. To do so, you should copy and paste the following code into your wp-config.php file located in the root of the WordPress installation?

define( 'WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '512M' );

You should paste it in a new line below this line of code:

$table_prefix = 'wp_';

Let me know if that works for you.

Regarding the number of events, 1300 is something you should be considering for the performance of your site. We have a great article that will get you started on Performance Considerations you should know about. After that, if you decide to implement a caching system then you can move to these articles: Caching: What, when and how and Caching month view HTML in transients

Finally, there is a good article George put up here that groups a set of developer plugins. It’s a bit more technical than the others but will definitely be of help if you are into development.

I hope that helps and feel free to ask any other question.

Best,
Victor

[bookingmcmaster]

Hi Victor,

Thank you for your response! I increased the PHP memory limit but then I was receiving this message in the error logs:

PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home1/mcmaste3/public_html/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/src/Tribe/Template/Month.php on line 720

So then I increased the timeout to 60 seconds and it’s working!

Thank you for the links about caching/performance optimization. I have taken a look and believe we already had the caching setting selected.

The development-focused articles was helpful and I already have the Query monitor installed. We will definitely need to consider site performance in some creative ways moving forward.

Thank you for your help!

Heather

[Victor]

Hi Heather!

I’m glad you could work that out. Thanks for coming back and letting us know about it.

Sounds like you have already taken a good look at the articles and taken some actions regarding performance, so that’s great!

I’ll go ahead and close this thread, but feel free to open a new one if you have any other questions and we’d be happy to help! 🙂

Best!
Victor

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