White Screen

Hi everyone. A newbie here as well, I hope I’ll find some idea on how to sort this blank page issue.
Briefly the story:
Website hosted on fasthosts.co.uk. I had uploaded WP via Filezilla, everything worked after fixing the DB_host reference. Installed a theme and created some content. The site was up and running, but last December it was hacked. Through FTP I’ve removed the whole content. One directory (x) wouldn’t delete, the webhost assured me it is a system folder that can be left. I uploaded the most recent backup but didn’t work. I removed everything again and started with a fresh installation of the last WP (3.3.1), changed the DB-host reference and…
blank page.
After reading all the support pages I’ve increased the memory to 64M, no difference.
Now, the installation is just fresh and the links in the wp-config seem to be all fine (a quick change test displays error messages).
There are no themes nor plugins installed.
https://mywebsite/wp-admin/install.php says WP is already installed.

Any idea would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

What version of WordPress were you running when you made that database backup?

Not too sure as I had gone through some automatic WP updates. I believe 3.1.3 though.

Try looking through the database backup file for the data relating to the wp_options table. Look the option name db_version and make a note of the value for that field. That will help us to determine which version of WordPress that backup is compatible with. The database structure changes from version to version so you can’t (for example) use a 3.1 database with 3.3 core files.

Sorry I misunderstood. I have no backup of the database. I only had a backup of the htdocs folder, which I believe were hosting WP in its 3.1.3 (or slightly later) version.
I guess the database hasn’t been touched as I haven’t done anything on it.
I have now seen I can have some access to it through phpMyadmin but have no clue as to what should I do with it. Sorry as I said I have some IT background but no specific php or webdesign experience.

First of all maybe a problem was during reinstall. You need to:

• find out if all WP files are present and replace all 0 sized php files by good ones

*most whitescreens are from this problem.

• find out if your provider has something like php/site error log it will help identify error

I have had the whitescreen issue for the past few days, it occured during my attempt in getting h2 tags to live through the excerpt stripping procedure.

In my attempt I found an overall solution that made my previous excerpt length and read more links redundant so I copy and pasted the entire function with all the whistles – to cut a long story short, the issue is in the excerpt length when used as so…

<?php
function string_limit_words($string, $word_limit)
{
  $words = explode(' ', $string, ($word_limit + 1));
  if(count($words) > $word_limit)
  array_pop($words);
  return implode(' ', $words);
}
?>

After removing a similar snippet from my functions.php, all is back to normal.

This solution was found by a member named “clickit” about 2 years ago.

RE: my previous post above
That solution only seems to work for +- 24hours, found another solution which suggested the removal of white space below the closing ?> tag.

Worked like a charm, if it gives me the white screen of death again after a few days I will post yet another “found” solution.

PS: the best test to see if a fix is working is to…

1. try access the admin
2. If you are already in the admin, preview a post

If you can accomplish both of those, you are not a sufferer of the white screen.

Hello there- white screen occurring – I am a newbie…please excuse the post length.

I have a feeling that it has something to do with altering the theme-functions.php
or the functions.php…
When I have tried to upload original these files again as they were originally configured – it did not change-I still can’t even access my admin screen.

I also have someone at my hosting account who gave this response that might be causing it:
“Hello,

Please look into undoing whatever changes you pushed towards your site. Looking over the php_error.log located in the following folder we are seeing the included errors: /www.ehlersdesign.org/logs/

[23-Feb-2012 00:57:18] PHP Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘TEMPLATEPATH/functions/admin-setup.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/share/pear’) in /mnt/stor12-wc2-dfw1/597084/650323/www.ehlersdesign.org/web/content/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6
[23-Feb-2012 00:58:34] PHP Warning: require_once(TEMPLATEPATH/functions/admin-setup.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /mnt/stor12-wc2-dfw1/597084/650323/www.ehlersdesign.org/web/content/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6
[23-Feb-2012 00:58:34] PHP Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘TEMPLATEPATH/functions/admin-setup.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/share/pear’) in /mnt/stor12-wc2-dfw1/597084/650323/www.ehlersdesign.org/web/content/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6″

Please let me know if anyone has any tips…thanks so much. Trevor

Also would appreciate it if anyone even knew where to find the wp-includes folder if mine is corrupted on the host maybe I could try replacing that…OK Thanks for your help!

Also my site is https://www.ehlersdesign.org

thanks again

You already wrote an answer to your question the file is missing “TEMPLATEPATH/functions/admin-setup.php”

OK thanks so much Dexmaster. I just replaced the entire wp-includes folder and it worked! back in business now. So happy! I have a lot to learn. Appreciate it.

Or it could be as follows this file was not created but was asked in your
“/wp-includes/functions.php” on line 6 (look for work line not comments)
there will be something like require_once(TEMPLATEPATH/functions/admin-setup.php)

Hi Esmi and co!

I carefully followed the steps to instal a child theme, but when I activated it came up blank. Now the blank is everywhere.

https://www.seedcorporatemedia.co.za

I deleted the child theme directory, but that didn’t solve the problem. What about deleting the hta file?

What’s the best way to get admin back again?

Thanks in advance!

as you can see your “wp-content/themes/vulcan-child1/admin/admin-functions.php” is lost you must create it or copy from backup if you had it before