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Debugging WordPress PHP Errors

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During my recent them upgrade I had some challenges with the Now Reading Reloaded plugin for WordPress and the frustrating “HTTP 500: Internal Server Error” messages. This took me on a journey of exploration into how the php modules used by WordPress and its plugins ended up as HTML on my browser and what logs were available to help me diagnose the 500 error.

The following article looks at how the pieces fit together in a typical Apache/PHP deployment (for WordPress and other PHP-based applications) and then shows how the pieces can be used to identify code problems….
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