Comments on: Solution to Wordpress Blank Screen of Death

By: Greg Malkin

Greg Malkin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:25:58 +0000

I fixed the problem simply by deleting the extra lines I had accidentally added at the end of my function.php file

By: Leo N

Leo N — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:36:35 +0000

An unclosed tag in the theme functions.php caused the problem for me. Thanks for helping me get on the right track!

By: Colin McNulty

Colin McNulty — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:58:39 +0000

Sounds like a tough one Tony. I’d suggest somehow a file has got corrupt, doing a reinstall of WP might help. This has worked for me after a WSOD during an upgrade.

Thanks for the tip Austin!

By: Austin

Austin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:09:23 +0000

This can also happen in your themes functions file. Make sure you do not have any “extra” returns after your last ?>

Solved my problem anyway. thanks.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:16:44 +0000

Unfortunately none of these solutions are working for me.

I did a bulk upgrade of some plugins, including Twitter Tools (running WP 2.9.1 by the way), then clicked on the Upgrade option again, and it sat there. I cancelled, and am not sure if it started to upgrade or not, it should not have done as I am up to date, but I then got the WSOD.

I tried removing the blank line – no change. Tried renaming the pligins folder – no change.

The ONLY page I am able to get into is http://www.delovesto.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php and all this does is tell me that my WP is already up to date, and back into the WSOD again I can’t get into the Login, Admin, Edit, Post etc pages.

So thanks for the help, it has at least taught me a few things, but so far hasn’t fixed the problem for me. As usual, it’s probably something really obscure, simple and stupid that is causing this.

I tried running the MSIE8 Debug option, but nothing comes up. The screen is blank and the scripts don’t show.

Wish me luck…

By: How I Solved My Wordpress White Screen of Death

How I Solved My Wordpress White Screen of Death — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:45:49 +0000

[...] started here: http://www.colinmcnulty.com/blog/2008/07/08/solution-to-wordpress-blank-screen-of-death/. After reading this post, I figured the problem could be an extra blank line at the end of the code [...]

By: Grateful in CO

Grateful in CO — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:20:03 +0000

The! Empty! Line!

*takes deep breath*
*takes ten more*

Yes, that was it. So what if I have less hair now than when I started trying to fix this problem for my client who tinkered with their blog? Your post saved the day, and from the looks of it, has been doing so for lots of people, routinely, for over a year now.

Many, many thanks!

By: Jarrod1937

Jarrod1937 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:17:47 +0000

Thank god for your post… I switched the host config for the db from localhost to an ip… and all of a sudden everything worked but the backend! Made absolutely no sense. That is until i found your post, and guess what?! That indeed was the cause, good job finding such a minute detail.

By: Kumar Sekhar

Kumar Sekhar — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:04:23 +0000

Great article dude !!! It’s save my life.

Thanks again!

Cheers!
Kumar Sekhar

By: Dr S K Verma

Dr S K Verma — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:03:26 +0000

Thanks man! You saved my life!! Weeks of hard work was going to be lost. I had a backup of wp-config.php file just before I installed Ultimate Google analytic plug in. I restored that file and thats it. I could see my lovely dashboard again!

This plugin is probably not updated to WP2.9 (latest version.

Thanks again!

sunil