after enabling multisite, my-sites.php gives empty page

8 month later I managed to encounter the same problem
maybe worse because the Url loaded up fully, but there was absolutly no code at all (blank source page and inspector showing nothing loaded either except the chit-chat between the browser and the webhost)
How?

Simply by not having installed the default theme (twentyten) on the server
but The theme was still registerd as present in the database

Stupid huh?

Here It is !

There should be a fall back mechanism, picking up the theme avalaible if the refered one does not exist anymore on the website (which was my case with twentyten)

There is a way to do that.

define('WP_DEFAULT_THEME', 'theme-folder-name');

Change your default to whatever you want it be. But yes, by default WP looks for Twenty Ten. It has to look for A theme, after all.

Well I chose WP to not have my head at/in the CODE,
I fought for few hours with this, then searched for another few hours to finally not find the solution, but just the time for my brain to cool down, then only after a night of jerking with WP I found that previewing a theme finally showed up the site (I even tried to append the parameter to the permalinks LOL => doesn’t work)

WordPress may be the easier-most-customizable blogging plateform, but It’s more and more like Android : a mediocre implementation of a good idea (Linux/GPL Code for the rest of us on a given plateform [the Web for WP])

But yes, by default WP looks for Twenty Ten. It has to look for A theme, after all.

with all this php code, there should be a way to list the themes actually installed before setting one up.
and Heck, even copy-paste the theme setting from the main site, as It is present, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to even log in the main admin page to begin with.

In my case I pushed a button in my Web Host Console to do an auto Install of WP 2.9 (I didn’t wanted to deal with their backward PHPMyAdmin selector, but I had to in the end)
So the default one was from 2.9 and it wasn’t TwentyTen but the OLD-OLD one named … “Default Theme” [based on the Kubrick theme]

Cheers

There will always be some code savvy required for any website ?? No way around that, so you’re going to have to have your head in it now and again.

If you’re using multisite, it defaults to assume you have a bog-standard install, and have left the theme alone. Maybe in the future there will be a nice GUI to let you pick a default theme, but right now, it’s a bit of a manual process, so at least now you know.

And yes, Twenty Ten replaced Kubrick. This was posted all over the place when 3.0 came out.

Is my english that Bad?

I explained in which context I got stuk with the 2.9 default theme [resulting in BLANK (so NO source code, NO error message, NOTHING)]
Detailing the every day scenario encoutered by zillion of users, and It’s still MY fault?

Seriously?

Big Post-scriptum :
Between that kind of disregard for the NORMAL user (the intended target of wordpress if I recall correctly) and the non-answering to a specific question sending the user to a phantom thread, no wonder why the OpenSource community got Its Freetard nickname…

I’m sorry for being such a helpless code-impaired person, To be frank, I do work every days with developpers, I can read and talk about code, It’s just that compaired to those guys, each Time I try, do and solve a problem [code related] I feel like an impostor and a slow one (especially compared to our Igor&Gritchka programming tandem, who where also blessed with photgraphic memory in addition of being Real twins).

Why?
— Because I'm a Graphic designer, not a programmer!
Fortunately, I'm a dying race and, with more and more talented Graphic artists/designer also able to handle code, you'll soon have a quiet forum.

Untill then, you'll have and already have to do deal with idiotic posters like myself with impossible scenarios to figure out, and some times simpler doable solutions on the software side than the typical “You can type It in a shell ! Duh !”

You have a bit of a weird signal to noise ratio (there’s too much non-helpful info in your posts, like about your job, the programing twins etc), which makes it hard for us to sort out what the question really is.

You had a pretty weird and rare problem. Is it resolved now? Sounds like, but you’re still venting so I’m not really sure and I want to BE sure, so you have an up and running since.

But three things.
1) If you’re not using 3.1 RC 2, then you actually should make a NEW post in the multisite forum.
2) We can’t be all things for all people, as much as we try, and I’m sorry you’re having a shit time of it.
3) There will still always be some coding knowledge needed for any website. Open source or closed. And there will always be a need for graphic designers.

S where are we NOW? If you’re just ranting, I’ll let you be ?? if you need help about 3.0.4 with multisite, please post in the multisite forum.