Title: Using Plugin Outside The Theme
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Using Plugin Outside The Theme

 *  Resolved [allworknoplay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allworknoplay/)
 * (@allworknoplay)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-plugin-outside-the-theme/)
 * I want to use this plugin for a custom php page, when i try to load it i get 
   a 500 server error. I have added require(“/plugins/posts-by-tag/posts-by-tag.
   php”); but this still doesn’t work. any ideas are very welcome!!
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-by-tag/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-by-tag/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Sudar Muthu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sudar/)
 * (@sudar)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-plugin-outside-the-theme/#post-6641236)
 * Please check your PHP error log and let me know the exact error that you are 
   getting.
 *  Plugin Author [Sudar Muthu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sudar/)
 * (@sudar)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-plugin-outside-the-theme/#post-6641484)
 * I am marking this as resolved. Feel free to reopen if you are still facing this
   issue.

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 * Last reply from: [Sudar Muthu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sudar/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-plugin-outside-the-theme/#post-6641484)
 * Status: resolved