WordPress blank white screen fix

WordPress is awesome; until it isn’t.  Upgrades can really mess up a site and cause all sorts of weird error messages.  Believe me, at some point since I started using WordPress in 2003, I’ve seen just about every error message WordPress can throw at me.

Yesterday was no exception.  I had a client’s site using the Wishlist Member plugin.  I got a couple emails saying whenever they would try to login, they were redirected to a blank white screen.  What was worse, is that it wasn’t doing that for me, when I was logged in as the admin.

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WordPress 3.3 & Popup Domination FIX & Upgrade Failure FIX

If you recently upgraded to WP 3.3 and also run the popup domination plugin – you most likely received an error on your site. Renaming that plugin folder removed the error – but also meant you couldn’t use the popup domination plugin.

TO FIX open the popup-domination.php file, search for this line of code (it was on line 64 in my version) (you can either go to Plugins > Editor and choose popup-domination and find this file to edit, or log into your site via FTP and browse to wp-content > plugins > popup-domination and download this file, edit in the html editor of your choice and re-upload via FTP):

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How to Edit a WordPress Theme to Add Custom Menu Function

I’ve had a lot of requests for this…. how to edit your current theme to work with WordPress’ custom menus. Here’s how ya do it:

Here’s a file that contains the code you need (PDF). http://bit.ly/wpcustomthemes