Title: Certain text string causing internal server error 500?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Certain text string causing internal server error 500?

 *  [tsdadam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsdadam/)
 * (@tsdadam)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/certain-text-string-causing-internal-server-error-500/)
 * I’ve run a WordPress blog for years with no problems I couldn’t fix myself, but
   today I had the strangest thing happen, and I wonder if someone can tell me why.
 * I was writing up a piece on a new game I’ve been playing, and I do this by typing
   it up in notepad (at work, they monitor web access time so it’s best I do it ‘
   offline’), then pasting and posting in WordPress. When I pasted this latest entry,
   it wouldn’t save a draft or let me publish it, both actions caused internal server
   errors.
 * After a lot of time talking to my hosting support, and trying a lot of other 
   things (I could post anything else as a new post and it worked without a problem),
   I started adding the text a paragraph at a time until I found one which broke
   it, and then narrowed it down to an individual sentence that seems to be the 
   cause of the problem, this one…
 * > I’ve already changed my main from Guile to Blanka, but I want to be good with
   > Cody and Ibuki.
 * Every time I add that, WordPress breaks. It makes absolutely no sense. If I add
   that line as a separate post, it works with no problem. I’ve tried pasting it
   from notepad to remove all formatting, pasting it directly into the HTML section
   of the editor in WordPress to avoid any unwanted ‘mce paste’ tags. None of it
   made any difference.
 * I’m not expecting a magical fix, and I’ve worked around it for now, I just thought
   it was strange enough to bring up in case someone else has a similar problem.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/certain-text-string-causing-internal-server-error-500/#post-1487908)
 * Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems?

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