Title: Cannot approve comments Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Cannot approve comments * [esthercossio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esthercossio/) * (@esthercossio) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-approve-comments/) * Ever since I upgraded to version 3.0 I notice my readers send two or three comments at a row (the sme comment)and when I try to approve it the comment keeps on being as “pending”. I finally get to approve it by editing the comment, which I don’t mind doing, but my readers told me they get an error message every time they want to leave a comment. * Can you please help me? * Thanks in advance! 🙂 Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Thread Starter [esthercossio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esthercossio/) * (@esthercossio) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-approve-comments/#post-1552460) * One more problem here! I tried to turn off the comments moderation in order to let my readers comment more easily and when I go to “Appearence” and “Customize” I got this message: * Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 491520 bytes) in /home/cossiow/public_html/blog/wp-admin/menu.php on line 235 * What have I did wrong when I upgraded to version 3.0? * Thanks!!! * Thread Starter [esthercossio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esthercossio/) * (@esthercossio) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-approve-comments/#post-1552472) * It seems that the problem is solved when deactivating some plugins. Now my question is, is there a limit in the number of plugins I can add to my site? * Thanks * Thread Starter [esthercossio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esthercossio/) * (@esthercossio) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-approve-comments/#post-1552552) * Please, anybody help? I have even tried the first four ways to increase PHP memory that a moderator indicated, with no results… * 🙁 * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-approve-comments/#post-1552557) * > [M]y readers told me they get an error message every time they want to leave > a comment. Can you please help me? * We could help, but we’d need to know the exact error message. * > Now my question is, is there a limit in the number of plugins I can add to > my site? * Generally, no. Technically, you’re limited by the amount that you can physically fit into your available server space and the amount of memory and other server resources that they consume when activated. * Regarding the memory issue, first try installing the [Memory Bump plugin](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/memory-bump/). * If that doesn’t work, here are four ways to increase PHP’s memory allocation: * ``` 1. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini If your line shows 32M try 64M: memory_limit = 64M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64MB) 2. If you don't have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file: php_value memory_limit 64M 3. Try adding this line to your wp-config.php file: Increasing memory allocated to PHP define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M'); 4. Talk to your host. ``` * Thread Starter [esthercossio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esthercossio/) * (@esthercossio) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-approve-comments/#post-1552769) * Thanks for your help, Macmanx. It looks that the problem with the comments has been solved on its own, but I keep on having problems with memory after doing the first 3 steps you told me to do. Now I’ll contact my host. * Thanks a lot 🙂 * Thread Starter [esthercossio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esthercossio/) * (@esthercossio) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-approve-comments/#post-1552785) * Hi again. I’m here because the problem with the coments is happening again. The error message my readers get when trying to leave a comment is: * “There was an error submitting your comment. Please try again.” * I’m having several other issues since I upgraded to version 3.0. I have even reinstalled it and solved some of them doing this, but the problem with the comments and the plugins is still on. * I’m thinking about going back to version 2.9. How can I do that? * I’m clueless… 🙁 * Thanks for any help you can provide 🙂 * Thread Starter [esthercossio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esthercossio/) * (@esthercossio) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-approve-comments/#post-1552797) * I’m sorry, I know I shouldn’t bump the message, but it’s been a week since I posted it, and I really need a solution, because my readers keep on finding that error message when tryinn to leave a commment. * Thanks a lot for your help 🙂 * [SrDusky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srdusky/) * (@srdusky) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-approve-comments/#post-1552817) * Esther, * Did you figure out the problem? I’m having the same issue and will gladly get back to you if/when I find a solution. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Cannot approve comments’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [Comments](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/comments/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 8 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [SrDusky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srdusky/) * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-approve-comments/#post-1552817) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics