
A 502 bad gateway WordPress error is a proxy reporting that the process behind it died, vanished or sent a broken answer. Find out who sent it, then read the log line: a PHP fatal error is a 500, and a slow request is a 504.
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To push WordPress staging to live without data loss, exclude the tables production wrote to since you cloned — users, comments, and every WooCommerce order table for your storage mode — then push files and settings only.

The best PHP version for WordPress in 2026 is PHP 8.3 for compatibility or PHP 8.5 for speed. On AHosting, each version also sets a different memory limit and timeout.

The WordPress white screen of death is a fatal PHP error, not an outage. Three server-controlled conditions decide whether you get a recovery email, a critical error page, or a silent blank screen.
