Title: HTTP 500 error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# HTTP 500 error

 *  [jerh48](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jerh48/)
 * (@jerh48)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-500-error-5/)
 * Our client was making some amends on his blog/site and suddenly it completely
   fell over. On Firefox we just have a blank screen and on IE we are given an http
   500 error.
 * This is what he says he did:
 * • Dragged the “Recent items” widget onto the sidebar
    • Added code from here 
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt)
   to switch on excerpts by amending the code governing posts • Activated the thumbnails
   plug in • Added in the “Read more” link to the functions code, again following
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt)
 * As far as I can tell there isn’t anything there which should have killed the 
   site but any ideas would be very much appreciated!

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-500-error-5/#post-2340313)
 * easy enough to test if the the theme’s `functions.php` is messed up
    upload a
   fresh copy of it to the active theme folder
 *  Thread Starter [jerh48](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jerh48/)
 * (@jerh48)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-500-error-5/#post-2340550)
 * cheers – will try that

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