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HTTP Status Code Basics: What 200/301/403/500 Actually Mean for Maintenance Tools

WordPress site maintenance constantly involves one basic question: after an update, is the site still working? Instead of relying on a human eyeballing a page and deciding "looks fine," most tooling…

  • 200 OK indicates successful request with normal content returned
  • 301 Moved Permanently redirects to new URL, used in WordPress URL changes
  • 500 Internal Server Error signals server-side failure during maintenance

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