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Posted by India Abraham
India Abraham
2,826 Points

Post content not displaying- white screen of death

Ok, so I've got a live site www.cfanla.org that I built everything appeared to be working just fine on the local version of the site. However, when an image (found on the slider) or the link to the blog page is clicked there is nothing, no content a giant white screen.

3 Answers

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points
Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

hmmm.. I'm not getting that. When I click the link blog article in the footer, it's linked to #/ which just reloads the page. If I type in "/blog", I get a page with a blog title and no posts.

If I click the big pink slider image, I do get the white screen there. More than likely it's a permalinks issue. Go to your settings -> permalinks and just click save without making any changes and see if you get same result.

India Abraham
India Abraham
2,826 Points
India Abraham
India Abraham
2,826 Points

Andrew McCormick saved the permalinks and I still get a white screen of nothing!

Shawn Gregory
PLUS
Shawn Gregory
Courses Plus Student 40,672 Points
Shawn Gregory
Shawn Gregory
Courses Plus Student 40,672 Points

Hello,

While we can't fully diagnose this issue without gaining access to your site's WordPress admin section (which is unadvised), here is a troubleshooting page from WordPress about this issue. Try doing these troubleshooting techniques to see if this solves your problem.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Common_WordPress_Errors#The_White_Screen_of_Death

Hope your issue stems from one of these common problems that can result a page coming up as a WPOD. Remember, in the wonderful world of PHP and MySQL, a white screen could mean a programming error since PHP and MySQL gets parsed before any output is created. Hope this helps.

Cheers!