slylake

You beauty!

If re-uploading it a couple of times doesn’t help (also try removing the theme if you have a local copy of it and re-uploading it from scratch).

Try to back-track your last steps with any “tweaking” you’ve done to the theme:

– Renaming the parent directory/folder of the theme files.
– Code edits within the .php or CSS pages
– New plugins installed and activated etc

Anything you can think of.. and try to roll back your changes step by step. Eventually one will make the old theme re-appear… As far as I can tell, the latest update to WordPress is essentially a security fix. As such, themes from the previous version should still work. (Hey, in theory everything works).

Mate, if I am ever in coastal Alabama, I’d love that. Highly unlikely that I will be, as I am from the “Sunshine Coast” in Australia. But, the way this world spins, who knows what will happen next! ??

Glad I could be of (very little) help. I’ll keep checking the thread for a final resolution.

Cheers,
Dan

The simplest way I can think of is to literally split the site.

Have your domain name as a splash homepage.

Create a subdomain for each location.

On your homepage, have a blurb/image etc, and then a link to each location’s site:
i.e. https://location1.yourschoolsname.edu.au and https://location2.yourschoolsname.edu.au

Then install wordpress into each of the two subdomains on their own databases.

Create users and administrators as per location. Use one theme developed for your school across both sites.

Aesthetically: one and the same visually, different by URL.
Technically: different horses for different courses.

ahh!!

abort everything I said.

You’ve got the “dreaded white page” error.

There seems to be an array of different reason for this error. Most that I have experienced myself first-hand have been courtesy of the theme in use.

Firstly, try (via the admin panel) using a different theme. Does the site now display?

Have you renamed the theme directory before re-uploading it to the host?
Have you tried uploading your theme files again? (FTP can be flaky sometimes, especially if your host is on windows).

I’m still not 100% convinced that this is the problem. However, given that you have a backup, this is worth a try.

URL for upgrade:
https://www.YOURSITEHERE.com/INSTALL_DIRECTORY/wp-admin/upgrade.php
*replace “YOURSITEHERE” with your actual site URL.
*replace “INSTALL_DIRECTORY” to the directory you have installed WP to, if any.

Full Upgrade instructions:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Upgrading_WordPress

Be interested to know how you go.

If you have the 2.6 original install files lying around.. might be worth uploading that to a subdomain (such as https://sandbox.yourdomain.com) and then updating the wp-config.php with the original wrdp1 database details and seeing if it will work.

Also, may be worth trying a backup from the day before or similar, i.e. a last known working backup.

Open up your offending file (whichever file has that block of text in it) in a text editor, such as: Notepad in Windows or TextWrangler in Mac.

Delete the above highlighted block of code.

Save the file.

Upload the file back to your web server.

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Bear in mind:
The block of code may be in any of the following files:
header.php
sidebar.php
single.php
page.php
index.php

Depending on how your theme is constructed.

First thing that leaps to mind for me is this question:

Was the core file structure of WordPress that you re-installed to your site, after blowing away everything on your server, the same version of WordPress that your database is expecting?

i.e. have you uploaded the most recent version of the wordpress install and a previous version’s database?
If so, you might need to “upgrade” the database by pointing your browser to the upgrade path.

If not, please confirm.

Hey all,

Jim W is spot on here. Firstly check all your files have uploaded correctly.

For those of you who are experiencing problems with your theme, i.e. your old theme displays a blank page.. but your dashboard etc is all accessible. Then upload your theme again (replace all current files/overwrite).

If you are still not having much joy. Try using a different theme. It could be that your old theme is not compatible or any other range of issues I guess.

But this problem seems to be largely in relation to the theme you have applied.

Cheers!