editing homepage returns wsod w/ plugin active

  • Resolved thoughtwell

    (@thoughtwell)


    5 years, 10 months ago

    I’m building a site locally w/ Genesis using the Genesis Sample Theme to base my child theme off of. I haven’t gotten into editing any PHP, CSS or JS, yet. The only plugin I have active is the Atomic Blocks Gutenberg Blocks Collection plugin. For some reason, when I go to edit my homepage, I get a blank white screen. All other pages are editable. It was working fine, and then all of a sudden, it just stopped working.

    I tried adjusting the ‘Reading’ setting to the news feed, then going back to edit the page previously designated for homepage, but I still get the same thing. For some reason, it’s just this one page. If I turn the plugin off, it comes back, fine. I have another site being developed locally that uses the actual AB theme and the same plugin, and it’s working fine, there… I have debug turned on, but on the front end, the page appears fine and in the editor where I get the white-screen, I don’t get any error messages.

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  • Plugin Author atomicblocks

    (@atomicblocks)

    Hi there,

    Are there any errors being output in the browser console? Sounds like maybe there is an error being thrown and preventing the page from rendering. Let me know what you find there and we’ll take a closer look!

    Thread Starter thoughtwell

    (@thoughtwell)

    Thanks for getting back to me. I think I have it resolved for now. Not sure why it was doing that, but it may be because of the local dev environment I am using. Prior to the issue surfacing, I had just updated my local dev application and the update may have caused something to go awry (although my other site w/ the AB theme was still working fine) but it’s stable and working, now.

    To resolve the issue, I deactivated the plugin, everything went back to working (except for the AB Blocks, obviously). I then deleted and reinstalled the plugin, flushed permalinks and everything seemed to go back to working and I haven’t experienced any further issues… it was just so strange how it was working fine one minute, then the next, it just kept doing this. I lost a little bit of the content in my AB blocks, but it wasn’t that huge of a deal since I wasn’t that far along. I had wp_debug turned active and wasn’t getting any errors, but next time (if it happens again; hopefully not) I’ll be sure to check the console log as I sometimes forget about that option. If it wasn’t as stable moving forward, I’d probably be afraid to use it, but this was just a one-off thing that I’m chalking up to that Local dev app update, so I think I’m in the clear… hopefully ??

    Thanks again for the help. I’m really enjoying use of the plugin and (unrelated here) the AB Theme. It’s made working with the new Gutenberg editor a lot more preferable to the classic editor for general posts and pages, although I still prefer a more form-like page structure for custom post type meta and such… but eventually, I’ll get to experimenting more w/ the Gutenberg features for that sort of content. I definitely appreciate the time spent working on these tools for the community!

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