For about a week now I’ve received a series of fatal error messages lately, maybe one in three times I visit the website. One by one I’ve shut down plugins like WP Total Cache, WordPress SEO etc and Godaddy suggested replacing core files if the problems persist.
Any idea why I keep getting these messages?
Last week there were these messages:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 19456 bytes) in /home/content/67/11400967/html/throughcracks/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/frontend/class-opengraph.php on line 521
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 97169 bytes) in /home/content/67/11400967/html/throughcracks/wp-includes/class-wp-embed.phpon line 315
Fatal error: Unknown: Cannot use output buffering in output buffering display handlers in Unknown on line 0
Then it went away for a few days.
Now I’m getting these.
The last two look like they may be associated with WPBakery Visual Composer?
Fatal error: Unknown: Cannot use output buffering in output buffering display handlers in Unknown on line 0
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 77824 bytes) in /home/content/67/11400967/html/throughcracks/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/classes/settings/class-vc-settings.php on line 1087
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4864 bytes) in /home/content/67/11400967/html/throughcracks/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/classes/settings/class-vc-settings.php on line 731
So far it seems like it has been primarily limited to the front page I believe. Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
Hello, I have noticed that the load time for Visual Composer is very slow for me (4.4 seconds). I saw that I am running version 4.4.4, and they are now on 4.5.2. According to their update logs, it seems that the newer version would be helpful as the it’s rather large and slowing things down.
My first question is, how can I upgrade?
Once I upgrade to the newest version, will I have to set everything up again or is this all saved?
Hi, I can’t seem to install the WPBakery Visual installer plug-in and don’t see it at all with either creating/editing pages or posts. when trying to upload the JS_composer.zip it gives me the the message “Failed to write file to disk.”
any advice?
Thanks,
Adriaan
Hi Alin
Sadly I don’t see it either 🙁
http://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/237060/8401f4a6222ef414514a557bd09c09fe
Could it be that I’m on WPBakery version 4.4.4?
Hi,
Unfortunately Portuguese of Brazil is not available in Theme Panel, but you ca translate manually words from Translation – http://screencast.com/t/ccBL2y8ZC4
If you want to use the patch to update please make sure that you have 1.7 version and update to 1.7.1. You have to upload patch files via FTP.
If you want to make a full update please use this guide(we recommend FTP method) – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-theme/ and also update the plugins that come with the theme file from /plugins folder – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
Thanks!
Issue is not with theme — all themes using Visual Composer as a “drag and drop page builder” are having this issue. And this only impacts some servers. We’re using NewsMag on two high traffic sites right now; one which gets a lot of traffic every day, the other gets large hits “depending on the content.”
Not sure what “SmartMag” is as this is the “NewsMag” forum, but if you read my thread then you don’t need to worry …
a) use the theme with current Visual Composer; might not impact your site/CPU depending on how your server is setup.
b) if you have a large CPU hit you will know immediately, and you can switch to using the SHIM plugin.
c) if you have a VERY high volume traffic website (e.g., millions of page views per day) you should be building a “lean framework” which doesn’t have all the pre-built options baked in, as this is not as efficient as a lean framework where you have as little as possible — e.g., TIME magazine is running on a version of twenty-fifteen theme with some custom plugins to manage editorial matters. No page builder, but lots of stuff running via cloud for fast “edge loading” via the Automattic premium platform. In that situation you would be custom building a theme to fit your needs not buying a $50 off the shelf product.
d) in our case we chose the TagDiv folk to redo our news network sites because 16 months ago when looking around they were one of the VERY few who had some clue about pagespeed optimization beyond so-called “SEO READY” … meaning, some thought given to page speed and not just “feature bloat” with some meta tags built in. We had built our own lean framework which was a pain pre-bootstrap, in 2011; went to Woo Canvas in 2012; went to TagDiv end of 2013 (has it been that long?).
But like all CMS platforms where you have a platform running on top of php, then theme(s) running on top of that, then plugins and hooks going into that, there is always a dev/test process on your end to see what works, what needs to be massaged, and what won’t work at all in your particular environment.
If you’re starting a NEW news site, I don’t think you need to worry about high traffic at this stage, as it takes awhile to build that unless you’re using bots or entirely click-bait with paid adwords per story to drive that.
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so, if you reads my thread you know
a) they have a fix NOW that works for those with high CPU issues
b) not all users of Visual Composer have an issue
c) the folks who make VC (not TagDiv) may optimize or fix memory issues in future version; TagDiv has NO control over that beyond working with the WP Bakery developers on the issue.
d) they may “roll their own” sideways version of a page builder which is more ‘lean’ at some point, but obviously that takes a bit of time to develop.
So, have fun and build your site 🙂
Hi,
You can find Visual Composer plugin in the theme’s files that you have downloaded from themeforest in /plugins folder. The latest version provided and tested with the theme is 4.4.4 version. Update it using this guide – https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
Like I said above check this also without any plugins active, leave just Visual Composer active, empty cache and see if you still have this issue.
Thanks!
You talk about the WPBakery Visual Composer plugin ?
Because when i want to upgrade to the latest version it ask me to enter a CodeCanyon Visual Composer license key. But i didn’t have that.
http://bm-integrateur.com/uvb/monde-des-bouchers/bouchers-francais/hugo-desnoyer/
I use the element tab at the end of the page.
Thx
My presumption on this is that the shim will be for those folks like us who — for whatever reason — end up with a CPU spike of doom with current versions of Visual Composer running full time if we get upsurge in traffic — like 100x normal. For those without the CPU issue, likely not a big deal. So, this is a solution for that — but *not* a full-on replacement for VC.
From the hints that Radu has made, I think he has it in mind (well the TagDiv team) to come up with possible sideways solution — basically their own version of VC, essentially to not use the VC product at all, but with their own coding since I can imagine there would be some odd licensing issues and they are not the dishonest sort who would reverse engineer VC then bypass WP Bakery folk and use their tech. So, presumably they would come up with their own framework but MUCH “lighter” than how VC does it, where probably 70% of VC stuff isn’t used by most folk (in our case anyway).
Just my impression of where that might go.
I think this “fix” is there for those of us who need it but not a “hey everybody — stop using VC” — which is still needed to build out the layout for home page in first place.
Right now this just takes on the complaint I’ve had the past 18 months with VC, where I’ve often suggested a “design mode” and “deploy mode” … meaning “everything on” for design, then at deploy only use the 20% of stuff you’re actually using. Why load all that crap you don’t need with every load of home page. Kind of like having every option in Bootstrap but only using a quarter of the functions would be dumb. Same idea.
But I ramble ….
working for me so far, and CPU/server happy as a cat in a new blanket with paws full of catnip. Well, I might be exaggerating … 😉
Hi,
I see you use an very old theme version (1.7) while the latest version is 4.6.3 now available on themeforest: http://themeforest.net/downloads so you need to change this sign theme’s customizer: http://screencast.com/t/ZIeLRKDWf2q If this cusomtizer isn’t working for you then you would have to update your theme and use the latest version’s features and panel to change the copyright date and text as you like.
To update the theme please follow the theme update guide paste below and make sure you backup your current theme an WordPress installations so you can revert back to them if something goes wrong: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
Use thew instructions from this guide and update the theme to the latest version: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-documentation/ – download the latest theme from themeforest: http://themeforest.net/downloads then use the FTP method and remove the old theme files and upload the new ones. After this you’ll or you can use the Visual Composer plugin to build you pages/posts content and layouts: https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
Make sure you go trough all theme’s documentation here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-documentation/
If you don’t want to update the theme then you can change the copyright text and date hard coded and replace the $tds_footer_copyright variable with a string 'Copyright 2022 - your text' like this: http://screencast.com/t/JR6vKdsX – http://screencast.com/t/yE0HIIS2
Thanks
I follow this link for Visual Composer:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
When I try to install the plugin I get this message: “File upload stopped by extension.”
Now my theme look bad without Visual Composer.
What can I do? (It’s urgent.)
Thank you
Hi,
Not sure how that happens. Could you please try to remove and reinstall the VC plugin and make sure you install the latest version from the full theme /plugins folder: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
Let us know how it goes and also make sure that you empty all caches and purge files if you use CDN host.
Thanks
Hi All,
I’ve have noticed WPBakery Visual Composer has caused an issue with my theme when it comes to generating the Yoast Sitemap. It appears blank or memory errors are thrown everytime its active.
Is there any resolution?
Hi,
I have checked your site and you have these errors in console: http://screencast.com/t/YzEGPI7ql3aG
Please do a fresh theme installation using this guide via FTP: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme/ and also update the plugins that come with theme’s files from /plugins folder – https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
Also check this without any plugins active, leave just Visual Composer active,clear cache and see if you still have this issue with infinite scroll.
Thanks!
Hi,
The WPBakery team asked for some details, i passed the question to the user which provided access to it’s install but i didn’t get a reply so the the investigation got stuck. We’re also working on an alternative, we’ll come with an announcement in the following weeks.
Thank you, Emil G.
Hi,
1. Just the one form the wp-content > plugins folder and please always make sure you backup your WordPress and theme install: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
2. Yes, best would be to disable all plugins, then delete the Visual Composer plugin and install within theme files > /plugins folder. Please use this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
3. If you don’t use any cache plugins then go ahead without concerning this aspect.
4. 1. Edit your wp-config.php file and enter something like:
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '96M');
WordPress memory can be different to the server – you need to set this regardless of server memory settings
http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP
2. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini
If your line shows 32M try 64M:
memory_limit = 64M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64MB)
3. If you don’t have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
php_value memory_limit 64M
4. If none of the above works then talk to your host.
Thanks
Okay, so I realize that every time I go to deactivate the WPbakery plugin, my website just goes to all blank pages, so there is something wrong with that plugin. How do I manually delete ALL of the WPBakery files in Filezilla, so that I can erase this plugin from WP admin area, and then just re-install it?
I am trying to install the Visual Composer plugin, following advice on https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
I reach Step 5, after the zip file is uploaded, and I press install. I then have an error message “The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini.” and the plugin is not installed.
Have I done something wrong or is this load limitation fixed by my hosting company (1and1)? I am new to WordPress and welcome any help or ideas.
Hi,
I’m not sure why you still have this issue. Please try to remove/reinstall Envato Toolkit – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme/ maybe will work after. Also we will take a look at this in future theme’s updates and see if there is an issue.
If doesn’t work please try to update via FTP, just follow the steps from our guide and make a backup of your current theme installation. After you update the theme you have also to update the plugins that come with the theme files from the /plugins folder – https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
Thanks!
Hi,
Nice job 🙂
I can provide the latest version of VC (4.5), it just came out, if you want to test it please send an email at contact@tagdiv.com and include a paste to this conversation. We didn’t tested it yet so i cannot confirm that it will solve anything.
I also created a ticket on wpbakery for the blank screen which appears on newer versions of VC for some of our clients but the things move slow and i’m not sure if they’ll come with a solution. It may be related to what you’re experiencing on your side.
Thank you, Emil G.
Hi,
I’ve created a ticket on Visual Composer help section, one client who’s got a similar issue agreed upon sharing his credentials with wpbakery team, i’ll get back with a solution as soon as i receive an answer.
Thank you, Emil G.
Hi,
From which version did you updated the theme?
Please update your theme via FTP – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme/ and also the plugins that come with the theme’s files from /plugins folder – https://forum.tagdiv.com/update-the-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
Try to delete the js_composer folder from plugins and upload again Visual Composer from the files that you have downloaded from themeforest. Let me know.
Thanks!
Hi,
@debarup Unfortunately we cannot update the theme for you but you can use this guide for update(FTP method) – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-theme/ and also update the plugins that come with the theme’s files from the /plugins folder – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-visual-composer-plugin-wpbakery/
Thanks!
I am in danger of having a web site turned off by my hosting company (Inmotion hosting) for excessive resource usage caused by constant hits to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php . We have also entered code into the https file to restrict use of the Admin page page to only our IP address as follows:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)?wp-admin.*$
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^99\.232\.52\.92$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ – [R=403,L]
</IfModule>
The site at http://www.breedingnews.com is the only site of several WordPress sites that we own which is suffering from this, and is the only one using the Newsmagtheme. I have already installed the Heartbeat control plugin but this is having little if any effect.
We have the following plugins running:
Adrotate
Envato WordPress Toolkit
Gravity Forms
Gravity Forms PGP encryption
Heartbeat Control
s2Member Framework
tagDiv Social counter
W3 Total cache
Wordpress HTTPS
WP Bakery Visual composer
Any help or ideas really appreciated
Hello.
I just moved my site to a VPS hosting and upon doing so I get a white screen with the visual composer plug in enabled.
I tried increasing my memory limit (google solution) and no help. Looking at my source some of the site is rendering but not all of it.
Basically nothing within the body tag. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
