I have a fairly robust site that is more than just wordpress, it's Woo as well and it does auction listings. I'm looking to put in fixed price listings and due to the specific rules that I need to work around I needed to add some conditional shipping and long story short a few more plugins on the sandbox.
Prior to adding a couple more plugins, I didn't have any issues with the site. When I went in today testing I noticed that I cannot even load the front end.
If I do a conflict test, I cannot narrow it to one plugin, it's basically once I get to a certain threshold of plugins and usually the ones that have more to do with the products on the site. One time it was plugin A, then I turned a few off and turned a few other ones one, eventually finding a different one that is causing the issue.
Is there a time that you just have to split the site into subdomains due to the PHP memory consumption? I have done this in the past, but I just want to make sure I'm not missing something here. Everything on the production site works great although it is a tiny slow due to all that it's processing, it's just the sandbox that is turding out.
Thank you for whomever can educate me a bit further on this, I appreciate it.
Check with your hosting to see how much memory you have vs how much you’re using.
If the sandbox is on the same server/account as your prod site, you’re essentially using 2x the memory.
You can also try increasing your php memory (google is your friend)
“Splitting the site into subdomains”… uhh, no, don’t do that.
Have you looked into this plugin [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-memory-usage/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-memory-usage/) ? Whilst I don’t think it’s possible to see how much memory each plugin is using individually, you can deactivate plugins to try and get an idea of what’s going on.
Sounds like a memory leak. Can you provide any of the other memory errors except for the wpmu seo plugin?