Tohru Murakami

@ryancowles: I think I solved the issue. It seems like erratic update process caused blank dashboard and settings pages. Let me tell my story —

1. Jetpack was auto-updated to 4.8 from 4.7.1, and the total blank-screen issue happened.
2. Using FTP, deleted plugins/jetpack/ and uploaded 4.7.1 from a backup. The issue restored. Disabled auto-update to wait for a fix.
3. 4.8.1 was released. Tried to update Jetpack in “Installed Plugins” page, but had write-errors, then remembered to have missed to change access privileges of uploaded 4.7.1 files. Using FTP deleted plugins/jetpack/
4. Installed 4.8.1 from “Plugin install” page. Had blank dashboard and settings pages.
5. Replaced 4.8.1 with 4.7.1 and fixed access privilege this time. Jetpack 4.7.1 worked OK.
6. Updated Jetpack in “Installed Plugins” page, then all the issues restored.

Uninstalling Jetpack 4.7.1 in “Installed Plugins” page, fresh-installing 4.8.1 from “Plugin install” page and re-linking it to the cloud also solved the issue.

The same thing. 4.8.1 corrects blank screen issues only half way for me.
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/problems-after-update-jetpack/page/2/#post-8999101

Updated Jetpack from scratch to 4.8.1. Stats works. Jetpack Dashboard and Settings caused blank screen errors, though. PHP 5.3.3.

Quick rescue is FTP or SSH. Rename wp-content/plugins/jetpack/ to ./_jetpack/ or whatever, so that JetPack is force-disabled.

Then try to replace JetPack 4.8 with 4.7.1, and re-link it to www.ads-software.com.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by Tohru Murakami.

It seems that JetPack 4.8 requires PHP 7, otherwise it causes blank-screen errors (even in debug mode). JetPack 4.8 calls random_int(), which is available in PHP 7 and up. Ref: https://swinginthinkin.com/wordpress/wordpress-jetpack-fatal-error/

Same here. No posts when logged in, the most resent single post when logged out. WordPress.com analyses show the top pages and keywords though.