White Screen of Death

  • I am working on a blog site for a client (www.thegreaterlove.com/wp-blog/) and I was trying to remove the top bar above the page’s main navigation that says “Welcome to WordPress” and So I googled how to do it. The YouTube video that appeared to be from WordPress’s YouTube channel showed me this script that I need to use and place in my functions.php file. So that’s what I did. Now the screens are all blank and white; plus I can’t even get into the wp-admin, and nothing shows on the front end of the website either, there is and I don’t think that there ever was a cpanel for this blog site (I can’t find it simply by typing in /cpanel) so I can’t change the folder names in there.

    I looked on the dev tools on chrome and it showed nothing on the code other than the basic html, body declarations with a ref to a non existing css file.

    What can I do? What are my options? Any help would be more than appreciative.

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  • jack randall

    (@theotherlebowski)

    go into the server via ftp or the cpanel, make your way to the wordpress installation files and folders and find that functions.php file you edited. find the code you added and remove it. go back to your browser, refresh the site and see if it comes back.

    avoid directly editing the functions.php file, especially if you’re not a full on code jockey, as you’ve found out it can utterly ruin your site if you make a mistake or miss some syntax out.

    hopefully you’re using a child theme and if you are then create a functions.php file in there and make your changes and add in custom code in that file rather than the main one.

    Thread Starter adamanderson864

    (@adamanderson864)

    I can’t figure out how to get to the cpanel on it. I usually just type in /cpanel but it doesn’t work on this site.

    jack randall

    (@theotherlebowski)

    type in the full site address and put /cpanel on the end. if that doesn’t work check your email for the notification from the hosting company that your account had been set up, it usually has a link to the cpanel in there with the relevant credentials.

    Thread Starter adamanderson864

    (@adamanderson864)

    I’ve tried all of these with no luck :
    .com/cpanel
    .com/wp-blog/cpanel
    .com/wp-blog/wp-admin/cpanel

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