Linking JavaScript Issue (White Screen of Death)

You get any errors in the console when you've got the script running?

One thing that may be worth a try is to get hold of jQuery Updater plugin. It can solve a lot of problems and help with fault finding.

and for some humor...When you say my code is "pretty much" word for word..Uhhhhhhhh...you know :-) Glad it's joyous now !

Where's your theme_styles function?

Dang it, I forgot to paste that one into the code section, was in a bit of a fluster when I posted this up, here's the theme_styles function within functions.php

function theme_styles() {

Cool. So theme_styles is currently an empty function? Because it's not closed properly. Have you any blank lines after the closing php tag in your functions.php file? White space after closing php tag causes weird issues.

Hey Matthew,

What I have done to stop any confusion I'll re-post everything that I have currently in the functions.php file.

<?php

// Load the Theme CSS
function theme_styles() {

    wp_enqueue_style( 'normalize', get_template_directory_uri() . '/css/normalize.css' );
wp_enqueue_style( 'grid', get_template_directory_uri() . '/css/grid.css' );
wp_enqueue_style( 'googlefonts', 'http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Sorts+Mill+Goudy:400,400italic' );
wp_enqueue_style( 'main', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
wp_enqueue_style( 'social', get_template_directory_uri() . '/css/webfonts/ss-social.css' );

wp_register_style( 'flexslider', get_template_directory_uri() . '/css/flexslider.css' );
if( is_page('home') ) {
    wp_enqueue_style( 'flexslider' );
}

}

function theme_js() {

wp_register_script( 'flexslider', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/flexslider.js', array('jquery'), '', true );
if( is_page('home') ) {
    wp_enqueue_script( 'flexslider' );
}
wp_enqueue_script( 'theme_js', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/theme.js', array('jquery'), '', true ); );

}

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_js' );


add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_styles' );

// Enable custom menus
add_theme_support( 'menus' );

?>

I have noticed that when I comment out the whole theme_js() including add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_js' ); block it works again, so I'm guessing that the issue lays within this function block (if that makes sense).

I have removed all line breaks from the file and there is no change, same issue.

I hope I'm making sense :)

Awesome, I might give that a go, I am to update WordPress also. I'll have a go a bit later on and I'll get back to you on how I go :)

Hey Mattthew,

So I finally figured out what was wrong within the functions.php file and it was a stupid error on my behalf. I turned on WP_DEBUG in the wp-config.php file and as soon as I ran the template i pointed me straight to the error.

What happened was I declared );); of course this wasn't going to work thus crashing the template.

Thanks for you help anyway. I have made a note of the jQuery issue in-case something odd happens again.