WordPress Memory Limit: How to Find What’s Eating Your PHP Memory (opens in new tab)

Originally published on Every “fix memory exhausted” article tells you the same thing – bump WP_MEMORY_LIMIT to 256M and move on. That’s not a fix. That’s duct tape. The real question nobody answers is: what’s eating your memory in the first place? I’ve profiled hundreds of WordPress sites. The pattern is always the same – someone raises the limit, things work for a while, then the error comes back. Because the actual problem is still there, just hiding behind a bigger number. Let’s And when ...