Google Search Console reporting a 500 error on my Theme Folder

Do you have a security plugin that might be forcing a 500 error on such access?

500 error is the normal WP behavior, isn’t it?

For example: https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/themes/techcrunch-2017/

So think I don’t need to fix that, but rather why Google is crawling that folder when it shouldn’t.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by dailyblogtips.

No, it’s not.

It’s also possible that the theme’s index.php detects it’s being accessed directly and blocks that with an error.

I do not have any plugin that could cause the 500 error. The error is caused because the index.php file on that folder calls for WordPress functions that don’t exist when you try to access it directly, hence the 500 error.

Any clue how to fix it?

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by dailyblogtips.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by dailyblogtips.

You’d get a 404, not a 500, if the file didn’t exist. There’s nothing here to fix. If this bothers you, exclude wp-content/themes via robots.txt.