It looks like another upgrade, but this one is a very small change. There has been many issues around 2.8 with admin consoles disappearing, memory over allocated, unable to use automatic installation, etc. If you have experienced any of these issues, don’t worry or at least not yet, more on this later.

I compared 2.8.2 to 2.8.1 and found that only (8) files were changed or updated. There’s no need to upload the entire package to upgrade to 2.8.2.

The (8) files that were changed are;

wordpress/readme.html
wordpress/wp-admin/comment.php
wordpress/wp-admin/edit-form-comment.php
wordpress/wp-admin /includes/comment.php
wordpress/wp-admin /includes/template.php
wordpress/wp-includes/comment-template.php
wordpress/wp-includes/default-widgets.php
wordpress/wp-includes/version.php

You only need to over write those files indicated above. There are no database changes in this release.

Are you having memory allocation issues?

Here are steps you can take to tackle these annoyances.

Note: Some hosting companies restrict you from increasing your allocated memory using the php.ini file. If you are hosting with BlueHost or Aplus.net you will be able to make these changes, however you will need to create a php.ini file.

How to resolve fatal error: Allowed memory size exhausted

  1. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini where it shows (memory_limit = 32M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (32MB) and increase that to 64M.
  2. If you don’t have access to PHP.ini try adding this to the wp-includes/cache.php file (right after the ini_set(‘memory_limit’,’64M’); // set memory to prevent fatal errors.
  3. I added this line to the wp-includes/cache.php file (right after the ini_set(‘memory_limit’,’64M’); // set memory to prevent fatal errors.

The reason I increased it to 64MB is if you look at the error you will get a memory size in bytes. The 33554432 in the error indicates that 32MB was not enough so I increased it to 64 and my errors in the dashboard went away.

You could also add the following line to your wp-config.php

define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);

Once this is in place, you won’t have to constantly make the fix again whenever you upgrade WordPress.

If these steps don’t work, please contact your hosting company for further support.

If you have any issues, please leave a comment here.