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WordPress From Bootstrap to WordPress Create Bootstrap Styled Theme Templates Creating a Portfolio Landing Page

Posted by Grant Winship
Grant Winship
1,912 Points

Activating plugins, publishing pages, posts or portfolio items all take me to a blank screen now - any ideas?

When publishing or updating a page or portfolio item I just get taken to a blank /post.php. I've been searching around the forums and trying some things but nothing so far is working. Was working fine at the beginning of the tutorial, not sure exactly at what point this started, I've tried backtracking but can't nail down the issue. Was also having problems with my wp-admin going to a blank screen, had to rename the themes folder to get back in, then change it back and reactivate the theme. Obviously something is corrupted in some way, any ideas on what would be greatly appreciated.

Grant Winship
Grant Winship
1,912 Points

It's definitely tied to the theme. I can switch to 2014 or 2015 theme and everything runs smoothly again, switch back to my custom theme and the issues are back. Also, if this helps narrow down the potential problem, in addition to the other issues the Media Library will not load on my custom theme, loads fine on other themes though.

2 Answers

Jacobus Hindson
Jacobus Hindson
14,429 Points
Jacobus Hindson
Jacobus Hindson
14,429 Points

Although I don't have a magic wand to find your issue I would start with your functions.php file. Cut and paste everything out of the file and start with a blank canvas. Start adding your functions back 1 by 1. I am 95% sure you will find a missing ; or , or a malformed name in a function.

Grant Winship
Grant Winship
1,912 Points
Grant Winship
Grant Winship
1,912 Points

Thanks Jacobus - ended up being very strange - I cleared out the functions.php and everything started functioning properly, so I assumed you were correct. Added my functions back in one piece at a time, testing page creation and custom post type creation after each piece, but weirdly it went totally smoothly through the ENTIRE document....I ended up pasting in literally the exact functions.php file that was there before, it now works fine though. I've logged out, refreshed, changed the theme and changed it back, everything works fine now - all I did sum total was empty out functions. php and paste everything back in though......maybe saving functions.php as empty cleared out some kind of cache that had an error in it? I'm super new to WP so I have no idea - very relieved to have it working now though, thanks for your help!