Comments on: Uh Oh! My WordPress Blog Is Blank!!!

By: rafaelromero

rafaelromero — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:13:39 +0000

the changing themes back to the default helped me. Thx!
rafaelromero´s last blog ..Doggie desserts

By: lea selley

lea selley — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:45:46 +0000

thank you so much… it was totally step 1 – didn’t have all the files moved over! Thank you so much for this!!!

By: Lheyanne

Lheyanne — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:39:39 +0000

I uploaded a broken theme and deleted it in my server.

Now, my site is blank. How do I change the theme back to default if if wordpress is blank?

Anyone? Help? Thanks.

By: elisa

elisa — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:36:04 +0000

Hi, I’m a starter and need help…
Today I checked my site and couldn’t find it. The homepage always shows just a picture, you can’t click further. But if I type other pages like this one: http://www.elisabethida.com/show
then it works (it shows the real page).
Can anyone tell me what to do to fix this?
Thanks a lot before!

Greetz,
e.

By: sample letters

sample letters — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:28:04 +0000

I have this problem on my letters site,

I can not add new themes or plugin directly, when ever I am doing it, its just goes blank.

I tried all the points above, Its still the same.

any suggestions?

By: theCaller

theCaller — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:36:13 +0000

well i did that (uploading .htaccess) but i don’t find any html files as you told. I get blank/white for my post link (pages and others are still working).

By: BrendanM

BrendanM — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:01:43 +0000

Another possible error: If you’re using .htaccess to modify your standard URLS into “pretty urls”, ie. http://www.site.com/index.php?p=4 to http://www.site.com/my-blog-post.html AND for whatever reason you actually have a physical “my-blog-post.html” in your site’s root directory, your blog page will not load.

Simply delete the .html files from your site’s root directory that happen to match your dynamically generated “pretty urls”.

This happened to me after I was copying and backing up files in a non-standard way.

By: Theodore Bagwell

Theodore Bagwell — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:27:51 +0000

I found that I had a habit of uploading index files and other files into my root wordpress directory instead of uploading into my Themes folder, as the files can look almost the same when looking at your directory structure. So re-uploading key wordpress files (excluding wp-config because I didnt want to lose my database info) and then re-uploading my theme files solved my problem quickly.

By: subbu

subbu — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:10:02 +0000

thanks for the tut. the theme was not uploaded and i had to reactivate the default theme for the changes to take effect.

By: Mike Landis

Mike Landis — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:57:09 +0000

It will be nice to see comments that aren’t SPAM. Thanks

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:31:14 +0000

Wow. We’ll I am glad that it is working for you, but it has got to be frustrating knowing that you did a whole lot of research and troubleshooting only to find that the problem was much simpler to fix.

Thanks for letting me know how you did it.

By the way, you have an interesting blog. Now that I can freely browse it, I’m quite intrigued. You’ll definitely see me over there.

By: Mike Landis

Mike Landis — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:36:32 +0000

First I renamed [blog_root]index.php so wordpress couldn’t find it and tried to get any permalink to load. Of course, everything was broken. Then I put it back and retried. After a very long wait (probably doing some sort of cache cleanup or refresh), I got the default content using its permalink.

I also found that I could switch the default page around and get whatever was the new default from its permalink too. The [blog_root] was still blank though.

Then I tried reloading [blog_root] and it came right up (no waiting). So, it appears to have been a browser caching issue.

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:54:25 +0000

Mike, I see that your site is up… What solution did you use?

By: Mike Landis

Mike Landis — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:32:18 +0000

All themes behave identically, including the wordpress default theme.

I reloaded the upgrade already. No change.

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:26:45 +0000

Yeh… I am at a loss here. The only think that I’d think might be the problem would be an incomplete upload of WP files, or perhaps an undiagnosed 2.7 bug. I’ll do some research for you and post whatever I find.

By: Mike Landis

Mike Landis — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:20:35 +0000

Sorry, I included something that looked like an HTML tag…

There’s no caching enabled. Ten posts per page (I read that post too – he said 2000 wouldn’t work any more (in 2.7), but 1250 would work. I have injected the code above in index.php – no errors are coming out.

There’s no content missing… I can switch the default page around. After switching, the page that used to be blank will display just fine (if you address it via permalink), but the new default page will be blank (from it’s permalink). The [blog_root] is blank no matter which page is configured as the default content, including configurations showing ‘the last 10 posts’.

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:16:47 +0000

One more thing. When you checked compatibility with the default theme, was it the default theme which came with the 2.7 release? Or was it the default theme in your previous themes folder?

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:01:53 +0000

Well, assuming that you aren’t implementing caching…

1. How many posts do you show per page? I know of one fix, where someone simply lowered the posts per page to a ‘reasonable’ number. (ie. less than 1000)

2. If that doesn’t work, do you have any error logs that you can look at? If not, use the code sample above to turn on error reporting… The only other think that I can think of is an incomplete upload of files…

If you find a solution, please let me know. I’ve visited your site, and this is quite perplexing…

By: Mike Landis

Mike Landis — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:44:26 +0000

What if the entire blog is fine except the default page? I can go to /whatever/ and the page is there, the widgets work, the links to other posts and pages all load completely, … except that / is blank after the 2.7 upgrade. The file permissions meet your spec above, it behaves the same if all plug-ins are disabled or if the four I’m using are enabled. The wordpress default theme behaves just as the others do – okay on all pages except the default one. There must be something else.