Title: Plugin took down blog Last modified: November 27, 2018 --- # Plugin took down blog * Resolved [na1man](https://wordpress.org/support/users/na1man/) * (@na1man) * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-took-down-blog/) * Hi, I want to start a member area on my blog. I installed Membership2 which seems like all I need. A few hours later my blog was down because of the plugin. * WP: “It keeps hitting PHP fatal errors, trying to use more memory than the server can handle.” * Please resolve this issue fast as the member area of my blog will also help me make more money with my blog. * WP:”Right. It will continue to cause 500 errors if it’s active. You can try contacting the plugin developers to see if this is something they run into often.” * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fplugin-took-down-blog%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Plugin Support [Dimitris – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support6/) * (@wpmudev-support6) * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-took-down-blog/#post-10923014) * Hello there [@na1man](https://wordpress.org/support/users/na1man/), * hope you’re doing good and appreciate the report here. * Is there any error log that you could share here with us? * Also, what’s the **memory_limit** in PHP and what’s the values of **WP_MEMORY_LIMIT** and **WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT**? * Please advise! Warm regards, Dimitris * Thread Starter [na1man](https://wordpress.org/support/users/na1man/) * (@na1man) * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-took-down-blog/#post-10923040) * Hi I don’t know a thing about PHP. Can you check that out with WordPress support? I gave up engineering 10 years ago and I focus on music now. 🙂 * Plugin Support [Dimitris – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support6/) * (@wpmudev-support6) * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-took-down-blog/#post-10937554) * Hello there [@na1man](https://wordpress.org/support/users/na1man/), * glad to know you’re focusing on music! 😀 * > Can you check that out with WordPress support? * I’m not quite following you here… where do you host your website? Maybe wordpress. com? If so, you should actually contact their support about the above questions that I made. 🙂 * Warm regards, Dimitris * Thread Starter [na1man](https://wordpress.org/support/users/na1man/) * (@na1man) * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-took-down-blog/#post-10937777) * I found this. I’m guessing it’s related: * PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 20480 bytes) in /wpcom-136749417/wp-content/plugins/membership/app/core/class- ms-hooker.php on line 271 PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 20480 bytes) in /scripts/env. php on line 29 * Where did you encounter the error? * There seems to be a script issue with their plugin that’s running too much and causing an error. * Plugin Support [Dimitris – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support6/) * (@wpmudev-support6) * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-took-down-blog/#post-10960822) * Hello [@na1man](https://wordpress.org/support/users/na1man/) * Could you please access your server through (S)FTP, edit the **wp-config.php** file and insert the following lines just above the _/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */_ comment * ``` define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '512M'); define('WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT', '512M'); ``` * Or you can ask your hosting provider to make this change for you. * Even though the 256M that now exhaust should be enough… can you please let me know which hosting provider do you use for your website? * Warm regards, Dimitris * Plugin Support [Dimitris – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support6/) * (@wpmudev-support6) * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-took-down-blog/#post-11033679) * Hello [@na1man](https://wordpress.org/support/users/na1man/) * I’m marking this topic as resolved due to recent inactivity. Feel free to post back any update and we can re-open it and carry on troubleshooting! 🙂 * Thank you, Dimitris Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘Plugin took down blog’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/membership_b8cdaa.svg) * [Membership 2](https://wordpress.org/plugins/membership/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/membership/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/membership/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/membership/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/membership/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/membership/reviews/) * 6 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Dimitris – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support6/) * Last activity: [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-took-down-blog/#post-11033679) * Status: resolved