{"id":947,"date":"2010-11-27T13:56:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T20:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=947"},"modified":"2010-11-27T13:56:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T20:56:58","slug":"blank-pages-after-wp-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2010\/11\/blank-pages-after-wp-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Blank Pages After WP<\/span> Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was upgrad\u00ading the Word\u00adPress site for someone and had a few moments of pan\u00adic when, after upgrad\u00ading, all I could see were blank pages. Vis\u00adions of hav\u00ading to go through the pain of rein\u00adstalling the data\u00adbase from the backup, and upload\u00ading all the files from the backup, were dan\u00adcing through my head, which would turn a quick upgrade into a long mara\u00adthon. The upgrade here was from 2.6.something to 3.0.1, and I had\u00adn\u2019t bothered doing all the inter\u00adme\u00addi\u00adate upgrades, so that made the pro\u00adspect even worse.<\/p>\n

Pok\u00ading around the vari\u00adous sup\u00adport pages encour\u00adaged me to try a couple of dif\u00adfer\u00adent things first. The fact that all the pages were blank, both the admin site and the pub\u00adlicly-vis\u00adible site, made the prob\u00adlem seem worse than it ended up being. And the solu\u00adtions turned out to be rel\u00adat\u00adively simple.<\/p>\n

Step 1: get the admin site going. I\u2019d made all the plu\u00adgins inact\u00adive, but fol\u00adlow\u00ading the advice on the WP<\/span> FAQ<\/span> troubleshoot\u00ading page<\/a>, I renamed the plu\u00adgins dir\u00adect\u00adory to plugins.hold, and cre\u00adated a new empty plu\u00adgins dir\u00adect\u00adory. This worked, and I could see the admin site. It turns out that one par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar plu\u00adgin cre\u00adated hav\u00adoc even when it was\u00adn\u2019t activ\u00adated. I could then rein\u00adstall all the needed plu\u00adgins cleanly from the auto\u00admat\u00adic install one at a time, test\u00ading to make sure each one worked.<\/p>\n

Step 2: go to the Appear\u00adance page and turn on the default theme (one thing I\u2019d for\u00adgot\u00adten to do before upgrad\u00ading). It turns out that the old theme was\u00adn\u2019t com\u00adpat\u00adible with 3.0.1, and showed only blank pages. <\/p>\n

Now the site works again, albeit not look\u00ading quite the same as it did due to the theme, but that prob\u00adlem is tract\u00adable and does\u00adn\u2019t cre\u00adate any\u00adwhere near the same \u201coh, no\u201d prob\u00adlem that the oth\u00aders did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was upgrad\u00ading the Word\u00adPress site for someone and had a few moments of pan\u00adic when, after upgrad\u00ading, all I could see were blank pages. Vis\u00adions of hav\u00ading to go through the pain of rein\u00adstalling the data\u00adbase from the backup, and upload\u00ading all the files from the backup, were dan\u00adcing through my head, which would \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cBlank Pages After WP<\/span> Upgrades\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-wp-mechanics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}