Your site was working. You made a change, or maybe you didn’t make any change at all, and now it isn’t. The browser shows a 500 internal server error, or a blank white screen, or just a generic “something went wrong.” No detail. No direction. The server hit a condition it couldn’t handle and stopped…
The save button confirmed it. The order screen showed success. Then you checked the dashboard and the order was not there. Or it was there with a status that never resolved. Or the inventory count did not change, even though the purchase went through. This is a different failure from a broken checkout. The checkout…
You did not break your site because you do not understand PHP. You broke your site because something in the system failed, and the system left you a note you did not know how to read. PHP errors are that note. They are not accusations. They are evidence. Once you know what each type means…
Most WordPress site owners have heard that there is a debug log somewhere. Almost none of them have it turned on. The ones who do turn it on, open it, see a wall of text, and close it. This is a waste of the most useful diagnostic tool you have. The WordPress debug log is…
