White Screen of Death

  • Resolved camouyer

    (@camouyer)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    Hello,

    Since 5 hours, I am having a WP White Screen of Death.

    I read a lot of the post on this subject, follow some recommendations, but nothing solved the issue.

    What is strange is that
    – the front end does not work at all
    – the back end works for part of it but for example the Pages or POST gives the WSoD
    – Removing all plugins does not change anything
    – Changing the Theme resolved the issue so this point out the theme but I do not know where to start from here.

    I have modified the theme heavily, so restoring the theme from scratch may not be an option.

    I’ve tried to define WP_DEBUG to true in wp-config.php, as well as increasing the WP_MEMORY_LIMIT, but no success, even removing white space in functions .php

    Before the issue, I was working on a template file and on the search.php, and a theme-functions.php file. I suspect the latest one as I do see how template or search could break the back-end, but putting the original theme-function did not fix the issue.

    I guess I need help on that one !

    Thanks

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  • What theme is it? Yes, themes definitely can break WP.

    Thread Starter camouyer

    (@camouyer)

    The theme is called “rumour” but I suspect it is because of a modification I made in a theme-functions.php. Unfortunately reverting back to the original file did not fixed the issue.

    That’s unfortunate – you might ask the developers of the theme if they can help you. These forums don’t support commercial themes .

    It’s also never a good idea to modify theme files directly – as you won’t be able to update the theme without losing your changes. Instead you can use a child theme –

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

    If you can’t get it sorted out any other way, you could make a copy of your theme files to your local computer, reinstall the parent theme and make a child theme and start moving your changes to the child theme. A tool like https://www.diffchecker.com/ can help you identify changes you’ve made.

    Might have a look in your blog’s directory via FTP or cPanel’s file manager if your webhost uses that and look for a php-error.log file or something similar to see what PHP errors are being generated.

    A white screen is usually caused by a fatal PHP error.

    Thread Starter camouyer

    (@camouyer)

    Unfortunately, I have not find any php-error.log to point me in the right direction …

    Thread Starter camouyer

    (@camouyer)

    Wpyogi, Thanks for the recommendation, I am trying a fresh install of the theme, and add the modification 1 by 1 in the child theme.

    Okay, cool. That’s the best solution moving forward anyway – as you’ll be able to keep things updated :)!

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