40M Memory Limit Is Too Low

I had several sites crash and it was due to my memory limit being 32M in the php.ini file. So that’s easy to fix. I just updated it to 2048M which is a fair limit.

However, I did not now that the WordPress Memory limit is 40M (much, much too low) and slowing down my site. WordPress would also crash when doing memory intensive functions like sorting large lists of users or posts (or even sorting users).

This limit should be a preference that is easy to set somewhere and also shows your available memory from the php.ini file (in case your hosting provider controls this)

At the very least it should be set to a higher limit (256M or 512M) so WordPress doesn’t crash out of the box when you’re setting up your first website.