WordPress troubleshooting playbooks

When something breaks, speed matters more than theory. These posts are written for live incidents.

Error-driven triage

• WordPress 500 errors: fast triage on Ubuntu + Apache

Logs and signals

• Apache log analysis for WordPress troubleshooting
• Using WordPress debug logs in production (safely)

Recovery tools

• Using WP-CLI for server-side WordPress recovery
• Fixing WordPress stuck in maintenance mode

If users are already impacted, follow these before changing configs blindly.