WordPress repairs run on a throwaway install before they are written down. 2026-11-10T00:00:00-07:00 https://siterepairmanual.com/ https://siterepairmanual.com/guides/memory-exhausted/ 2026-11-10T00:00:00-07:00

A plugin allocating 64 MB hit WordPress’s 40 MB default and the homepage returned HTTP 500; raising WP_MEMORY_LIMIT to 256M in wp-config.php returned HTTP 200.

https://siterepairmanual.com/guides/stuck-in-maintenance-mode/ 2026-11-10T00:00:00-07:00

A leftover .maintenance file returned HTTP 503 with “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance”; deleting the file — or running wp maintenance-mode deactivate — returned HTTP 200.

https://siterepairmanual.com/guides/locked-out-of-wp-admin/ 2026-11-10T00:00:00-07:00

With the admin password unknown and no email access, wp user update and an MD5 hash in wp_users both restored login: wp-admin returned HTTP 200 and the dashboard loaded.

https://siterepairmanual.com/guides/upload-exceeds-max-filesize/ 2026-11-10T00:00:00-07:00

A 2.2 MB JPEG failed with “The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini” at a 2M limit; raising upload_max_filesize and post_max_size to 64M made the same upload succeed.

https://siterepairmanual.com/guides/database-connection-error/ 2026-11-09T00:00:00-07:00

Tell a wrong database password from a dead database server, then fix the right one. Reproduced in a disposable WordPress 7.1.4 install: wrong password returned HTTP 500 with “Error establishing a database connection”; restoring the password returned HTTP 200.

https://siterepairmanual.com/guides/white-screen-of-death/ 2026-11-09T00:00:00-07:00

Turn on WP_DEBUG, read the fatal error out of debug.log, and deactivate the plugin that caused it. Reproduced in a disposable WordPress 7.1.4 install: a bad plugin update took the homepage from HTTP 200 to HTTP 500, and deactivating the plugin brought it back.