Akismet 2.2.3 breaks 2.7 dashboard

  • I’ve got a fresh 2.7 install, default theme and no extra plugins.

    Simply activating the bundled Akismet 2.2.3 plugin causes all my dashboard widgets to disappear making the dashboard useless.

    Also, when I browse to the Akismet plugin with the new built-in plugin browser, I see the warning, “This plugin has not been tested with your current version of WordPress”.

    Is WP 2.7 + Akismet 2.2.3 broken out of the box for anyone else?

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  • Thread Starter prestonbg

    (@prestonbg)

    In addition to the empty dashboard, I’ve noticed some other bad things.

    When editing a simple 2-line post, under Post Revisions, all I see is:

    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 10485760 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 76216 bytes) in query.php on line 2501

    Again, if I deactivate Akismet, everything is fine.

    Could this be memory limit related?

    I suspect a server config issue, but we’re running many older WP installs (up to 2.6.2 with Akismet 2.1.8) without any problems.

    Any ideas?

    missmoxie

    (@missmoxie)

    I’m having this same problem. If you have a solution, I’d welcome it!

    Update: Upgrading all your plugins to the most current version, in my case Podpress was the culprit, and then activating Akismet should help. It fixed it for me. Good luck!

    If you can narrow down the plugin that is needing the extra memory you can add this line:

    ini_set(‘memory_limit’, ’16M’);

    to the php file for the plugin. If at first it doesn’t work, increase it by 8M until you no longer recieve the error message.

    The advantage of this method is that you have more control and set this value just where you know it is really needed. Also it can be done without having access to the system php.ini, and will become active immediately.

    @gizmotastic,

    thats dated info.

    see this:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP

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