Seeing a blank white screen on your WordPress blog?
Problem: The admin control panel nor any pages on your blog cannot be accessed. All that appears is a blank white page. The problem is common for WordPress bloggers who have just recently made edits to essential php files or have too many plugins running in the background, causing PHP to malfunction.
Solutions:
- Check your themes functions.php file. This file is a frequent contributor to the infamous white screen of death problem. Check for a blank code after the ?> character — this extra space can screw up your entire blog. If you don’t know what your functions.php file should look like, download your theme again and re-upload the functions.php file.
- Try changing the WordPress theme to default. If your blog works in the default theme, then you should re-install the theme you had been using.
- Try deactivating all your plugins by changing the name of the plugin folder, wp-content/plugins, to something different. If WordPress works after that, than you know you need to get rid of some plugins or try the below step.
- Define the memory usage for PHP. You can do this by adding: define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’); to your wp-config.php file. If the problem is memory related, this should fix it. Try higher values if 64M does not work.
If none of the above solutions work, it might be a good idea to re-install WordPress or contact your host.
You can also see if this line:
wp_enqueue_script(‘jquery’);
is in the header.php and take it out. It fixed the issue I was having.