Why does wordpress-3.8 FAIL over and over

  • Till now I have enjoyed the wonderful 1-click update feature for wordpress…

    I have always made manual backups of the file system and DB. Even used BackupBuddy to make things easy, but always manual backups and test on a demo server.

    Now, with 3.8 everything seems to have gone to hell.
    In the last 2 weeks I have tried to update 8 differant word-press sites, (which previously were nice and easy). Several months back in 2013 I got some errors related to the new version of PHP, but all that was solved and WP 3.7 was a flawless victory across the board.

    Now, there are nothing but problems with 3.8
    Suddenly I am seeing errors I have never seen with WP. The kind of things I would expect with Magento or the old Mambo, hell, even Joomla.

    Script time outs. Memory errors. adding crap like
    define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘128M’); and updating php.ini settings like max_execution_time and memory_limit

    What gives?
    – Anyone else have MAJOR WP FAILS over the last few months?

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  • From a support perspective, the 3.8 update was relatively problem free, so it looks like you’ve just has some particularly bad luck. From the little detail you did provide, it seems you may have been sailing pretty close to your PHP memory limits with 3.7 and 3.8 just tipped the balance.

    Have you had any problems since you increased PHP memory?

    Thread Starter demo tester

    (@zagarskas)

    bad luck? perhaps so on 1 or 2 sites, but across the board on 8 accounts the following happens:

    1- update word-press script hangs (5+ min) and eventually the page gives an out of memory error
    2- I should not have to increase the WP memory to 128M, WP has run fine on 32M for years.

    Is 128M now what its going to take to run WP? Even 96 or 64 seems a little high considering this has never been an issues in the past decade…

    if so, then so be it. but that sure comes as a surprise to me.

    eventually the page gives an out of memory error

    Try just temporarily increasing the PHP memory to deal with the upgrade and see if that helps. You can drop it down to 64M as soon as the update is complete.

    32M is really too little to run WordPress unless you intend to avoid all plugins and use a very simple theme.

    Thread Starter demo tester

    (@zagarskas)

    I will give that a shot on the next update.

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