musings

Well this error recently happened today and infuriatingly prevented uploading images. According to this guys explanation its the old chestnut of the development teams not talking to eachother meaning that a database schema was changed that affected a part of code which now broke because of it.

Anyway, the fix is;

ALTER TABLE wp_posts CHANGE post_parent post_parent BIGINT;

And his full post is at;

http://ardentdev.com/fix-for-wordpress-xmlrpc-500-internal-server-error/