When I tried to upload an image using WordPress's built-in image upload feature, I received this error message:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1024 bytes) in /home/trinityl/public_html/church/wp-includes/media.php on line 999
The image is 1.7 MB in size and has dimensions of 2875 x 2156.
I checked line 999 of media.php. Here's the section of the code, which includes line 999 (bolded).
/**
* Create new GD image resource with transparency support
*
* @since 2.9.0
*
* @param $width
* @param $height
* @return image resource
*/
function wp_imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height) {
$img = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
if ( is_resource($img) && function_exists('imagealphablending') && function_exists('imagesavealpha') ) {
imagealphablending($img, false);
imagesavealpha($img, true);
}
return $img;
}
I tried uploading other images that were larger in file size than 1.7 MB, and I received no error message.
I then tried uploading other images that were larger in their dimensions. When I tried to upload a 3000 x 3000 image, I received this similar error message:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 12000 bytes) in /home/trinityl/public_html/church/wp-includes/media.php on line 253
Notice that the error is on line 253 this time. Here's the section of media.php that includes line 253 (which I've bolded again).
/**
* Load an image from a string, if PHP supports it.
*
* @since 2.1.0
*
* @param string $file Filename of the image to load.
* @return resource The resulting image resource on success, Error string on failure.
*/
function wp_load_image( $file ) {
if ( is_numeric( $file ) )
$file = get_attached_file( $file );if ( ! file_exists( $file ) )
return sprintf(__('File “%s” doesn’t exist?'), $file);if ( ! function_exists('imagecreatefromstring') )
return __('The GD image library is not installed.');// Set artificially high because GD uses uncompressed images in memory
@ini_set('memory_limit', '256M');
$image = imagecreatefromstring( file_get_contents( $file ) );if ( !is_resource( $image ) )
return sprintf(__('File “%s” is not an image.'), $file);return $image;
}
Yes, I realize that it appears I could just resize images before uploading them, but a very "non-technical" blogger of mine is having this issue, and I'm not sure he'd even know how to resize images before uploading them. Besides, I guess I'd like to know why I can't upload images with very large dimensions.
I apologize for the length of this post, but I wanted to be as specific as possible. Thank you in advance!
