ck 👨‍💻

For my wife's business I manage a website that uses #WordPress in the background. The pages are made with #elementor which is a powerful #WYSIWYG online-editor to create pretty nice designs.

Over the years the site constantly grew, gotten some replacements, etc. Every update has worked fine so far, until yesterday.

When I hit the "Publish" button in Elementor, an error showed up for a couple of seconds: server error (error 500).

The HUH? and the A-HA! in my blog.

https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/blog/1524/wordpress-elementor-mysterious-500-server-error

Wordpress, Elementor and the mysterious server error (500 error)

The WordPress website builder Elementor ran into mysterious server errors (500 error) when trying to update a site.

Claudio Kuenzler
Mar 6 at 4:41pmWeb
Show threadsterndataMar 6

@ck

nable wp_debug and wp_debug_log and after an error, look at wp-content/debug.log to see if anything gets logged there. https://wordpress.org/support/article/debugging-in-wordpress/

You can also try this: Please attempt to disable all plugins, and use one of the default (Twenty*) themes. If the problem goes away, enable them one by one to identify the source of your troubles.

If you cannot access wp-admin, there are other ways to deactivate plugins:  https://wordpress.org/support/article/faq-troubleshooting/#how-to-deactivate-all-plugins-when-not-able-to-access-the-administrative-menus

https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/

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Show threadck 👨‍💻Mar 6
@sterndata I did all this. WP_DEBUG showed no error. I expected a real PHP fatal error, which would have explained the HTTP 500 error. If you read the full blog post, then you see what the issue was.
Show threadDale ReardonMar 7
@sterndata @ck Just read the blog post - so is Elementor revisions the same as WordPress post revisions or Elementor has its own revisions system? This is something I will look into as we use Elementor currently
Show threadck 👨‍💻Mar 8
@dalereardon @sterndata I am not a WordPress or Elementor expert, but what from what I understand the revisions apply to both.