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Mark Lovett
Mark Lovett
15,853 Points
Posted by Mark Lovett
Mark Lovett
15,853 Points

The 'Dreaded Blank White Screen' appears when saving or updating in WP?

Im trying to trouble shoot the "blank white screen" which appears when I try to save or update in wp. To get out of it, I have to use the back arrow. I know I have an error somewhere in my code in a template file somewhere. I think the problem appeared midway in the 'Creating A Portfolio Single Page ' lesson, maybe after I added the custom post type and custom field.

3 Answers

ty lacock
ty lacock
2,191 Points
ty lacock
ty lacock
2,191 Points

Most of the time when this happens to me it is a missing semi-colon in some line of PHP. I would got back into the file that you edited most recently and save each time you hit Undo. After each time make sure to refresh the browser to pinpoint which change caused the white screen to appear.

Mark Lovett
Mark Lovett
15,853 Points
Mark Lovett
Mark Lovett
15,853 Points

Thanks I'll give it a try.

Mark Lovett
Mark Lovett
15,853 Points
Mark Lovett
Mark Lovett
15,853 Points

Too many files to scour the code, so I got lazy and replaced my functions.php file with the course download functions.php, and it fixed the problem. I must have had a semi colon out of place somewhere in there.