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WHOO! Never mind, it’s fixed now! A dev friend on Facebook pointed me to this support fix: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/127427/how-to-fix-empty-dashboard-issue-in-wordpress/127486#127486 and it worked like a charm. Now I’m going to update to the newest WP version so it doesn’t happen again.

Thanks for all your effort and suggestions! I appreciate you taking the time to try and help!

I renamed the current “fangirl” directory to “fangirl_rename” and uploaded the unzipped twentyeleven theme. (Turns out I already had a twentyeleven theme installed but I replaced the file anyway with the new one.)

Unfortunately, still no luck. If you go to https://www.beans-etc.com/fangirl/ now you’ll see that the front end of the website just doesn’t load at all when I change the theme. When I use Chrome’s inspect element tool, the blog coding isn’t there.

Any suggestions?

Yes. My current theme is called “fangirl” — I went into my themes directory and changed the folder called “fangirl” to “fangirl_test”, but it didn’t do anything other than make the front end of my blog not load.

Thanks for the suggestions, but unfortunately neither of them seems to have worked. First I tried the instructions:

Or reset your plugins folder via FTP or the file manager provided in your host’s control panel.

Via FTP or your host’s file manager, navigate to the wp-contents folder (directory)
Via FTP or your host’s file manager, rename the folder “plugins” to “plugins.hold”
Login to your WordPress administration menus (/wp-admin)
Via FTP or your host’s file manager, rename “plugins.hold” back to “plugins”

Afterwards I refreshed my Dashboard but it was still just a blank page. I also tried clearing my cache and cookies, but to no avail.

I then tried your suggestion with renaming the theme directory, but when I refreshed the Dashboard nothing changed — the only thing that was different was the front-end of my blog no longer displayed anything anymore either. (I have since changed the theme directory back to it’s regular name.)

Is there anything else I can try? I’m afraid I’m really out of my depth on this one.

Nope, still doesn’t appear to work. :c (Thank you very much for all the help you’re offering though, I really appreciate it.)

I added the one new line (as far as I can tell it’s just the one line you added, correct?) and it didn’t appear to change anything.

This is an example of an monthly archive page with more than 6 posts — as you can see it still has the pagination link at the bottom to view more: https://www.beans-etc.com/fangirl/2008/12/

Thanks for the tip. I’m not very PHP savvy. However, when I try to insert that code snippit you gave me and load the page, it gives me an error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING Do I have the syntax wrong…? I wasn’t sure whether/where to include closing quotations, etc…

<?php wp_list_bookmarks('after=echo "<a href='" . get_permalink() . "'>permalink</a>'); ?>

?

BTW, just a heads up that I don’t really know how to write PHP myself. Any WordPress customizations I do are mostly gleaned from examples shown in the codex.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can offer a solution.

Sorry, I forgot to link to the blog if that helps anyone any:

https://www.beans-etc.com/handsdown/

(Scroll down near the bottom to see the error. Again, this happens with any theme I try.)

Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas for this?

I’ve done some searches for plugins and through the forum here already, but I don’t know what it would be specifically called. Every time I search for something like “RSS feed plugin” or anything it always seems to come up with the reverse of what I want — getting your blog as an RSS. I want it the other way, where I use my blog itself as my RSS reader.

Any takers…? Anyone? Help please?

Nice, I just put it the first example from that page as is and it worked! Thanks a lot for the help and clarification~

(Apologies for the double post.)

I thought that one was only used for backend purposes because it says “This function does not display anything”. I’m not very php savvy, so I assumed that meant it couldn’t be used to show text.

I’ll try this to see if it works, thanks~

I did. There’s a similar one “single_cat_title”, but it only seems to work if you’re on the single page for the category itself. I need it to be able to display the name of the post category, not the current page category.