Comments on: WordPress Custom Database Error Pages

By: Mudslide Design

Mudslide Design — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:35:10 +0000

forgot to link you to it mudslidedesign.co.uk/blog/theme-able-wordpress-error-pages

By: Mudslide Design

Mudslide Design — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:33:14 +0000

This might be a bit late, but we now have a free plugin that will allow you to create a template for WordPress error pages, like the comment submit error page.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:28:01 +0000

I saw this error when upgrading to WordPress 2.7. My host was 1&1. I attached the method to need to follow to solve this problem

http://www.root777.com/wordpress/solution-to-error-500-after-upgrading-to-wordpress-27/

By: Custom WordPress database error pages - Joost de Valk's SEO Blog

Custom WordPress database error pages - Joost de Valk's SEO Blog — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:06:23 +0000

[...] Quite a few blogs have already discussed this feature, and they all forgot one thing (that is not properly documented anywhere, so you can’t really blame them): their error pages don’t give an HTTP 500 Internal Server Error header, but a normal “200 OK” header. If you do nothing, the default WordPress error page does give an error 500, but the db-error.php page doesn’t. This means that should your database fail, and someone would open your front page at example.com, he would be served that error page with a 200 OK header. If that someone were a search engine, that’s what it would index… If the search engine encounters a 500 error, it will not index that page and just wait for your server to be fixed again. That means not making sure it sends a 500 header is a huge risk. [...]

By: Ryan Williams

Ryan Williams — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:01:02 +0000

Any idea if you can do something about similar errors like the comment posting error? For an example, simply try spamming a WordPress blog with comments (maybe this one). ;)

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:17:03 +0000

I’ll check this out, altho I don’t know when the last time I’ve had a DB error on my blogs, at least I’m not getting emailed about them.

By: Kalidasa

Kalidasa — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:20:18 +0000

Thanks, that’s very helpful. I may even know enough html to change it a little.

By: RHB

RHB — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:19:31 +0000

very interesting, something else very worthwhile for reading OMB.

By: TheDane

TheDane — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:28:16 +0000

It is much larger scale, to the point of crashing web servers :)

I think the only one “worse” Slashdot :)

Kim:)

By: John P.

John P. — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:22:51 +0000

What Happens When You Hit the Digg Homepage

By: Derek Wong

Derek Wong — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:48:02 +0000

Oh pretty interesting, I’ll have to do one of these. I just recently had that page come up when my database went down. I did think that it was pretty ugly but considering that I hardly see it, I didn’t think to modify it. Thanks for the idea.

By: Steve Elliott

Steve Elliott — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:12:57 +0000

Has anyone here managed to hit the mystical front page of Digg? What effect does it have on traffic – are we talking about a few hundred extra visitiors….or is it on a bigger scale than that?

If large scale, then no doubt there will be people who try to exploit it and spoil the content, a bit like stumbles.

By: TheDane

TheDane — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:35:38 +0000

Much better than the usual error :)

I like your Youtube Blender too…

Kim:)

By: Mistergin

Mistergin — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:55:37 +0000

I like that you plugged in the Youtube player.. that’s a great way to keep folks busy rather than just displaying an error.. I may add this :)

Thanks!