WordPress: Blank screen after upload to server…

The WordPress White Screen of Death seems to happen quite a lot to most folk. Usually it’s fairly simple to fix, but without an error message or code, I’ve found myself staring at the problem for 24hrs before noticing!

Hopefully this little list will help you on your way to fixing your WordPress White Screen…

1. Check functions.php for any whitespace, blank lines etc. 9 times out of 10 this has fixed it for me.
2. Look in the wp_options table of your database. Check and double-check the ‘home’ and ‘siteurl’ URL
3. In wp-config.php – add/change ‘false’ in the line; define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false); to true and see if you get any error messages
4. You might have an incompatible plugin, this method was shown to me by @thecodezombie, Jason Hobbs
   i. Go to your database table wp_options and find active_plugins
   ii. Cut & Paste the contents (somewhere safe) and see if clearing the data fixes your problem, if not, pop it all back in!

So.. there’s a few options for you if you’re suffering with a WordPress White/Blank Page!

EDIT: A fantastic little trick is to upload a test.php file with the following code in it and it’ll force WordPress to spit out an error message! Genius!

<?
ini_set('display_errors','1');
ini_set('display_startup_errors','1');
error_reporting (E_ALL);include('index.php');
?>