Comments on: Solution to WordPress Blank Screen of Death

By: Ash

Ash — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:45:23 +0000

WOW. Thanks… You saved my life.

How ridiculous that a simple line-break can cost you 3 hours of head scratching. That one single line break can completely destroy your site.

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:46:54 +0000

Thanks a lot Tom.

Also, if you ever get a failure from bad plugins, just rename plugins to something
like plugins.off or plugins.hold – this is a lot easier than messing with your database,
as WP will figure out after a couple of refresh pulls to the site that the plugins are not available, and essentially “off”, and so then you just create a new plugins folder, and then drag n drop plugins from the “off folder into plugins and wait for the wheels to come off again – “stepwise refinement”.

This helped me to take care of the plugins without going into database.

By: judy

judy — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:19:37 +0000

almost 4 years after your initial post and the solution is still needed! after a day looking at a white screen, with no access to ANY page on the site, I did the active_plugin cleaning via the cPanel DB access and voila – my site is viewable once again.
thank you!

By: Milktea Addict

Milktea Addict — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:11:12 +0000

Thanks Colin, just updated to 3.3.1 and got this blank screen of death. I followed the disabled plugin fix in the database and solved everything for me.

By: Jason M

Jason M — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:56:04 +0000

I have an issue only (and rarely) when I try to update an existing post – it seems as if the database gets stuck/locked and it will just time out.

I have searched all of the intarwebs for a possible solution or at least an explanation and I have not had any luck. If anyone has any ideas/thoughts/possible solutions please feel free to reply back here or contact me at my site. Thanks!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:33:43 +0000

Please help, I have the issue of dreaded blank screen after I log into my admin site of my blog (it also has ‘w’ on top left of the screen) . However, I am not a techy and have no idea how to do any of the things you are giving guidance on…can you please give me the kindergarten version? Thank you

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:06:41 +0000

Thanks Guru! It saved my life!!! Thanks

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:28:58 +0000

Dude! Finally got it working. Hours of searching and I finally came across your post.

Thanks a million and Happy New Year.

By: sabrina

sabrina — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:09:22 +0000

I just clicked on the automatic update this morning and to my surprise, I could no longer access the dashboard after that. First time this thing happens and I’ve had WordPress for years! I’m going to guess that it’s a plugin incompatibility issue and take it from there.

By: matt biggins

matt biggins — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:40:10 +0000

thank you! you saved me who knows how much time.

good man….