Comments on: How I Solved My WordPress White Screen of Death

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:30:02 +0000

Glad this blog helped you! I can’t believe how annoying that one little space can be. Thanks for letting me know :)

By: p

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:00:11 +0000

Thank you , I was freaking out until I found your blog
Had a blank space in my function.php

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:35:18 +0000

Glad you were able to find the problem!!!

By: Thompson

Thompson — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:28:39 +0000

Thank you. I actually did have blank spaces after the close php tag in my functions.php. Who’da thought?

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By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:25:47 +0000

@Rich so happy you were able to solve the issue! @Carl I love you too ;-* Salmon is my favorite – give your girlfriend my love. Cheers! AV

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:05:41 +0000

I LOVE YOU AND MY GIRLFRIEND JUST GAVE ME PERMISSION.
If you were here we’d make you Salmon for dinner.
I just started my new job and this monster ‘Blank White Screen of Death’
over took my work days. But nomore Thank you Jesus for Amanda.
Friends fa sho.
~Carl

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By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 21 May 2010 07:34:51 +0000

Thanks for saving me 2 days of work! The exact WordPress error message happened to me a few minutes ago. Your first step made me think to reload the original Thesis 1.7 comments.php file I was working on – and boom it restored my WP-Admin panel.

Great article…Rich

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:42:15 +0000

@NW Skyles thanks for the link!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:38:33 +0000

@Greg Weber – Best. Compliment. Ever. = “persistent girl-geek”. Glad you got your problem solved :-)

@Rich, that sounds bad, sorry. I wish I could help but luckily I haven’t gotten a 500 error – wouldn’t that mean there’s a problem w/ your webserver? Not sure a WP reinstall will solve that…? But let me know if it does!

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:30:52 +0000

I haven’t gotten the white screen but a few days ago I got a 500 Internal Server Error. Then all pages but my homepage disappeared. When you go to them (ie, http://www.thelunaticltd.com/about) it gives me a Page Not Found error. I’ve tried creating & publishing new pages but they aren’t found. I’m hoping that a reinstall of WP will fix it. I’ll use your links for more info. Thanks for the great post.

By: Greg Weber

Greg Weber — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:43:23 +0000

Amanda, thanks so much for posting this. Who knew that a blank line in the stupid functions.php file could take down the entire WP install, which is what was causing my “white screen of death – guess I’ll just have to slash my wrists now” problem. Thanks so much! Us geeks are lucky there are persistent girl-geeks like you out there.

By: NW Skyles

NW Skyles — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:06:32 +0000

No prob, sorry for the atrocious grammer… I blame the WSOD trauma. Strangely enough, you may be interested in one of my projects. It’s a soccer documentary called “Pelada.” It’s about two soccer players who travel the globe looking for pick up matches.

http://www.nicholaswskyles.com/blog/?tag=pelada

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:02:13 +0000

i’m so glad it was helpful, and thank you for the nice note! i’m also super-glad you got your blog back up and running. :-)

By: NW Skyles

NW Skyles — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:52:42 +0000

This post is the single most helpful thing I’ve seen on the internet. I’ve was messing with my functions.php and though I deleted what I had added (after I started getting the white screen only on submitting posts or theme edits), I had failed to take out the extra line… Then everything went south… I was replacing files, backing up, getting ready for the dreaded reinstall and then your post popped up on google and I took a deep breathe and decided to read through it.

Sure enough, I took out one return out of my functions.php and everything snapped back into place.

Thank You

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:17:39 +0000

Glad this post was helpful!!! thanks for letting me know :)

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:41:56 +0000

I didn’t think fiddling with my theme’s PHP files (as opposed the WP ones) was going to cause any major problem…never did before. Well, that is until I left a $%&*ing extra line anyway earlier today and got the blank screen. This post saved me from days of frustration, no doubt. Serves me right anyway for trying to fix what wasn’t broken, eh?

Thanks!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:01:07 +0000

Hey Markus, So sorry to hear you saw the white screen too! You’re working in Thesis, right? Did you give a thorough check for that blank line in all the files in your /thesis folder?

By: markus

markus — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:45:42 +0000

I also was just working on the functions.php file and i got the white screen. I noticed the extra line at the end and i also deleted it. But i still get the white screen…i dont know what else to do. Im going nuts over here…