Title: Plugin Activation Causes 500 Error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Plugin Activation Causes 500 Error

 *  [bmd91](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmd91/)
 * (@bmd91)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-activation-causes-500-error/)
 * I already know that my custom plugins are the ones causing 500 errors upon activation,
   I was wondering if anyone could give me ideas of why this may be happening.
 * Any help would be HUGELY appreciated
 * Thanks!

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 *  [Andrew Mills](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewmills/)
 * (@andrewmills)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-activation-causes-500-error/#post-3402102)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress)
 * I’d suggest turning on Debug Logging within WordPress, activating your plugins,
   capturing the error messages in the debug log, turning off your plugins and the
   debug logging, and then analyzing the error messages to figure out your next 
   steps.

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## Tags

 * [500 errors](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/500-errors/)
 * [plugin activation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/plugin-activation/)

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 * Last reply from: [Andrew Mills](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewmills/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-activation-causes-500-error/#post-3402102)
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