After I changed my theme, Error 500 (Internal Server Error) appeared

  • My website was down for maintenance awhile ago while designing my site. Then as soon as I hit “Visit site”, error 500 appeared. I asked the hosting company on why is it like that. They told me that they can deactivate my plugins and the theme. But I worry about my design cause I might start all over again, when I’m almost finish. But then I’ve decided,
    I have one of them to deactivate my plugins and the theme I used which is twenty-twelve. But we also tried to reactivate it again. But then error 500 appeared again. I don’t know what’s wrong already.

    Can someone please help me?

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  • A 500 error is a service error. It generally has nothing to do with which theme or plugin you are using. Check your server error logs to see if there are any errors recorded there.

    Hi Jan,

    That error IS usually due to a theme or plugin problem or bad .htaccess file. I would start with the .htaccess file. Try renaming it to anything else so WordPress can create a new one for you. Found a good article as well with more troubleshooting info:

    https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-the-internal-server-error-in-wordpress/

    Going forward, if you are making changes to a theme, use a Child Theme instead of altering one of the WordPress default themes. This gives you a theme to fall back on if something goes wrong and keeps your changes from being overwritten when you run updates.

    Christi

    Hi Jan Loraine, your problem may be with permalink, so goto admin -> settings -> permalinks
    and click only on save button. thanks

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