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

By: AJ McClary

AJ McClary — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:29:38 +0000

I’ve gotta hand it to you, the tester.php just saved my life. Thank you so much!

By: hairy

hairy — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:09:21 +0000

thanks for numerous ideas on solving this matter.. finally i just reinstall my wordpress and so far its working fine.. haha..maybe u want take a look at my website & let me know if it went white again.. really appreciate it..

By: Jocke Webmaster

Jocke Webmaster — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:56:45 +0000

The tester.php made the thing! Discovered that one plugin started to act strange, took it away, and now the site is working! Thank you very much!

/Joacim

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:06:15 +0000

@Claude: Thanks for including the details about your problem. It will definitely be helpful to other WP users. I’m glad your issue has been resolved.

By: Claude

Claude — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:56:04 +0000

My blank page problem was hard to find because I had nothing whatsoever in HTTPD error_log file. I have 2 Web servers but WordPress was working properly only on one Web server:

1. In the file wp-config.php, add a line right after the line like “ error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', 1);

2. In the same file, also enable debug :
define('WP_DEBUG', true);

3. Go to your WordPress site on both servers and check the debugging info that is output in your browser.

4. I found out that the Simple Lightbox plugin was not loading on the defective Web server. So I disabled the plugin in WordPress.

5. I can now see the exact error message that is causing the blank page! The blank page problem was because of :
PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 23068672 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 32 bytes)

6. In PHP.INI, I increased the value from 22M to 32M (33554432) :
memory_limit = 33554432

Then it solved the problem!

By: April

April — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:05:19 +0000

I know this is a very old post, but THANK YOU for keeping it up! That single blank line was my issue and I would have never figured it out!!

By: zac

zac — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:56:39 +0000

I’d like to add this to my previous post:

I turned debug mode on, and, when I call WP_query() from inside my custom plug-in I get the following error:

Call to undefined function is_user_logged_in()

By: zac

zac — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:39:35 +0000

I’m using a custom plug-in, where I want to retrieve values from posts (whiche are posts that belong to a custom post type) to list them inside a metabox of some other custom post type.

So i’m trying to do that using WP_query() inside the plug-in, and that gives me the blank page..

I imagine that for some reason I can’t use WP_query() inside the plug-in… is there another way I could retrieve these posts?

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:53:56 +0000

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/26-install-caused-indexphp-to-read-silence-is-golden

Accidentally copied index.php file from the wp-content directory into root directory. Re-copied this code:

…to my index.php file in the root directory and re-uploaded, and everything worked again.

By: Ana

Ana — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:33:02 +0000

Hi!

Thank you for your help! The culprit was indeed the last blank line of wp-config.php. Who would know that ONE BLANK LINE would cause such a major headache?

Thanks again.

Ana

By: Emad

Emad — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:22:40 +0000

Mine was the permissions

By: Kendosrcboat

Kendosrcboat — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:06:57 +0000

My site also disappears after i change the permalink option to custom : /%postname%/

Then All the admin page disappears. Please help.

By: sample letters

sample letters — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:59:19 +0000

I was also very much worried about this problem. Thanks to you for clearing my this problem.

By: Malaysia travel

Malaysia travel — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 08:15:42 +0000

This is what happened when I tried eStore wordpress theme, which is something that I couldn’t figure out till now :/

By: Letters

Letters — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:20:18 +0000

I faced the same problem on my website few days back but solved it. I reinstalled the wordpress files.

By: Boris

Boris — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:24:31 +0000

Hi, just to say thanks, I was in ‘blank-screen panic’ until I came across this post. As you suggested I was missing a theme, my fault for using a ‘clean install’ and forgetting. Five seconds to switch to the default theme and get the site back, then 30 seconds to ftp the old theme across. (Although I prefer the default theme, so I’ll work on changing that and ditch my old theme) Thanks!

By: rafaelromero

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

the changing themes back to the default helped me. Thx!

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. www.site.com/index.php?p=4 to 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.