Tried to install the WordPress Lifestream plugin, but I got an error message. Since the upgrade to WordPress 2.7, I’ve found myself faced with a variety of memory errors such as this one with a number of plugins, and even when publishing:

“Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 311296 bytes) in /*/*/*/*/*/wp-content/plugins/lifestream/lib/simplepie.inc on line 4152″

I had a similar problem with cForms 9.3 on another WordPress blog I that upgraded. wp-admin wouldn’t load and I had to uninstall WP 2.7 and reinstall the older version (2.6.5) to get it working again. Only then did the plugin work. I recently read an article on Mashable saying that cForms is supposed compatible with WP 2.7, so I’m not sure if it’s my web host’s servers (smartyhost) not being able to keep up with this new version’s memory requirements or just incompatibility.

These plugins haven’t worked for me at all:
cForms 9.3 (9.2 seems to work)
Lifestream 0.85c

This has worked with a small error message:
tantan noodle’s Flickr plugin appears to work but has displayed a similar error when I tried to insert images based in interestingness.

Another issue I’ve faced is that auto install for plugins don’t work. Probably my hosting again. The plugins download fine but are not unpacking. Maybe I should contact them about this.

Anyone else having similar problems with WP 2.7?

*UPDATE* I got Smartyhost to up my memory. They increased it to 64MB and it’s all working fine again!