WordPress Won’t Save Changes to ‘Mesmerize’ Template

If you’re having trouble getting the Worpdress template “Mesmerize” to save (Publish) the edits you make to the template, you may have to turn off ModSecurity temporarily through CPanel.

This also applies if you get an error where — when trying to choose a ‘Font Awesome’ icon — none of the icons show up in the pop-up box.

Template: Mesmerize
WordPress: 4.9.5
Problem: The WordPress template called “Mesmerize” won’t save any changes OR the Font Awesome icons won’t show up

Try this method:

1. Log into cPanel for the website you’re trying to change
2. Under the Security header, click “ModSecurity”
3. Click “off” next to the url where WordPress is installed
4. When you finish editing your website, turn ModSecurity back on

Don’t ask me why it works. It just does. So, if you’re at your wits end, give this a try.

If the above method didn’t work:

If this did not fix your problem, other people have recommended to increase the “WP_MEMORY_LIMIT”. This advice is for Advanced users only:
1. Log in to your site via FTP
2. Open wp-config.php
3. Add this line at the end

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M');

• If that has no effect, edit your PHP.ini file by increaseing the “memory_limit” value.
• If you don’t have access to PHP.ini, try adding the following line into your WordPress .htaccess file:
  php_value memory_limit 256M