My Wordpress site just went blank

BlackxHat

Power Member

Oct 6, 2009

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• May 23, 2010

• #1

no error messages or anything, just a white blank page, i cant even acess their cpanel. I havent really backed up stuff, this happen to anyone here before??

edit: well, its back up now.

 

unmark

Junior Member

Jul 8, 2008

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• May 23, 2010

• #2

Hi,
So what did you do to bring it back? I had it before too and in my case it was because of a one "bad" plugin. So the best solution was - disable all of them and then bring them back, one after another till you find which one causes the problem. Another reason could be WP database issues. This guy has the right solution to it:

HTML:

http://webtrickz.com/how-to-fix-wordpress-blog-showing-blank-pages-issue/

 

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moserw

Junior Member

May 7, 2010

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• May 23, 2010

• #3

This happens with running autoupdate on plugins. Google the error message for the fix. Last time I had to delete some .manifest or something like that in the root folder.

 

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annihilation

Newbie

Oct 14, 2008

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• May 23, 2010

• #4

How can you disable the plugin if the dashboard is blank?

 

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Brash

Newbie

Apr 14, 2010

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• May 23, 2010

• #5

you would have to disable it externally by using FTP or through C panel

 

Grizzy

Senior Member

Nov 11, 2008

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• May 23, 2010

• #6

annihilation said:

How can you disable the plugin if the dashboard is blank?

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Keep in mind everything you do in the admin panel essentially just results in a sql query being run on your database.

Code:

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = '' WHERE option_name = 'active_plugins';

should disable all plguins, then you can log back into the admin panel (if it actually is a problem with a plugin) and re-enable them one by one.

Always backup your db

 

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moserw

Junior Member

May 7, 2010

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• May 23, 2010

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For Wordpress FTP is what I use nearly 99.99% of the time. Even for posting I use Windows Live Writer (much recommend it).

I don't do much SEO on it because its a personal blog so not much in terms of plugins. For my autoblogs I use WP Robot and it rocks.

 

xboxps3wow

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Jan 15, 2010

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• May 23, 2010

• #8

are you on hostgator? cause they were restarting servers etc tonight

 

BlackxHat

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Oct 6, 2009

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• May 24, 2010
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xboxps3wow said:

are you on hostgator? cause they were restarting servers etc tonight

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i am. it must have been that i guess. it just came back on its one. i was a bite scared i lost everything. i did a search while the site was down (about 15 min) and saw that some people had the same problem and it never resolved. they lost all their content. I'm gonnna be backing up my data more often now.