WordPress/WooCommerce Crawler 5xx Recovery

A WordPress and WooCommerce website was returning server errors to crawler requests. The affected pages could not be fetched successfully, and Google Search Console was reporting the problem.

My task was to identify the cause, correct it and check the affected pages again.

I used the Search Console findings and HTTP response checks to investigate the failure. The problem traced back to an optimization-plugin conflict within the WordPress setup. That connection mattered: a plugin intended to improve the website was interfering with the responses crawlers received.

I isolated the conflict and corrected the affected behaviour. The work focused on the pages and templates involved in the reported failure.

After the correction, the affected requests returned HTTP 200 responses. I rechecked the relevant templates and verified their behaviour through Search Console.

The result was a targeted repair of the crawler-facing server error. My role covered the investigation, plugin-conflict correction and checks on the affected pages after the change.

This project shows the practical side of technical SEO: following a reported crawling problem back to its cause in the application, correcting that cause and checking what the website actually returns afterwards.