Wordpress Blank Screen
Have you ever encountered WordPress blank screen? You type your address right, but found nothing there, you go into /wp-admin and the screen still show nothing but blank. What a WordPress user could possibly do if he/she can’t access the dashboard?
Few hours ago i had this problem, i was desperate and thought that i might need to reinstall my wordpress to solve this matter.
At first i didn’t notice what actually triggered the problem, because at that time, i were working on one of my post, tune my themes in another tab and has just finished uploading upgrade version one of the plugins.
I found out the problem after i have finished with all admin work and viewing the site. My site shows nothing, none, nada, null. I checked is it my hoster goes off, but no, nothing wrong. So what possibly happen?
The Solution
Thank goodness it is a small world we are living in, and there is google who made it smaller, so as usual, i went searching with google. I used the “wordpress blank screen” as the keyword. I got few websites help me with this matter.
- Somebody wrote that the page just need to be refreshed (F5)
- Somebody wrote that it might because of the themes, solution is i have to re-upload the themes
- Somebody wrote it might be file corupt that made the screen goes black. I have to re-upload all the files. Gosshhh…
- Somebody wrote that it must be the cache plugins conflict that give me the pain.
- One website told me it might the plugin got screwed up, what i need is just rename or delete the last plugin i uploaded.
I guess, the last one is the easiest one. So i checked my plugins, and found out that i haven’t delete the old version of plugins i wanted to upgrade, they are still there with different folder name.
Deleting the old folder didn’t took long, after that I reloaded the page (F5) hastly, and voila, its there as it supposed to be!
So, if you stuck with same blank screen problem next time, take my suggestion, try to remember and check where did you put your hand last time, try to undo that. Next, check whether you do anything that made the plugins screwed?
Always take the re-install and re-upload as the last option. If you still can’t fix it, try to reach Google.
Just my two cents, have fun!
