mattfinarelli

No, my host has not upgraded, that’s why I am forced to run 3.0.4, the best WordPress version that can be run with MySQL 4.

As soon as they upgrade to MySQL 5, I will of course get the latest version of WordPress, but until then, this is what I have to use.

So, within that framework, is there anything I can do to fix my problem with the blank admin page in the meantime?

Thanks so much for your help here, but alas, I have a new issue.

So what I did was a “downgraded” my blog to the best version that Yahoo could support – 3.0.4. And hooray, my blog is back up and running on the front side of things:

https://www.sportscurmudgeon.com

But on the back side of things, I had access to the admin page for about 1 day, and now it is once again the white screen of death. So I’m not sure what would cause one side to work and not the other. I’m hesitant to try the usual series of things that I tried when the whole blog was down, lest I lose what progress I have made!

Any ideas on this one?

OK, I spoke to Yahoo, and they are doing the upgrades to the servers simply because they realize they need to do this in the wake of the tons of WP customers who need this. They don’t have a timeline, but they are working on it.

wpsecuritylock,

So I have done all the steps to upgrade my blog as you said, but it says that it needs a higher version of MySQL – that is, a new database.

https://www.sportscurmudgeon.com/blog/wp-admin/upgrade.php

But all the help sections say that if WP needs an upgraded database, it will give me a link to follow. The only link it gives me to follow is a link about upgrading my WP software, and nothing about upgrading my database. It’s like an endless loop that’s not helping me.

My site is hosted by Yahoo, and they allowed me to upgrade to PHP 5, which I did. But do I have to contact them about upgrading to MySQL 5 as well?…

Thanks so much. The readme.html file is there – it just also comes up as the white screen of death. Which seems odd to me. The files are all in https://www.sportscurmudgeon.com/blog…

I wasn’t running WP3.2.1 though, I was running an older version which I hadn’t updated, so that could be part of this problem.

So if I upload the new 3.2.1 into the /blog/ directory directly, it should all come back into place with all my posts and everything?

I guess a follow-up question to that would be – how do I do this? Do I just take the wp-content/cache directory and insert it into the new Worpress files? Would the posts be saved that way? Or are the content of the posts actually stored elsewhere that I have to go get them?

OK, I have now tried everything associated with that article “WordPress and the White Screen of Death” that I can, (both in the article and comments section) and have searched for other solutions, and those aren’t providing anything new. Simply put, I am stuck.

Are there any other ideas out there, or does my idea of moving the posts to a newly installed version of WordPress have some merit? Can anyone chime in on that concept please?…

yeah, i did make the other plugins directory. No dice. And I deleted all the themes except the default one. Still nothing. Will see what other pages yield, but any other links to other articles are welcome.

Another idea – if I were to take the content folder – with all my posts, and then delete the version of WordPress I have on my site now and re-install the latest version of WordPress on my site, could I just copy over the posts like that, and it would auto-populate my “new” blog with my old posts?…

thanks so much for getting back to me. I tried both the renaming of the plugins directory to disable those, and I renamed my theme directory to try and disable it, and that didn’t work either. I still have “the white screen of death,” and the article you linked to said to consult the forums for more ideas. So is there anything else I can try?

I read the documentation, and applied the “&limit6” to my archives sidebar. It isn’t working at all. Any ideas on that one?…

any ideas? I have not seen anybody have a similar problem, but if anyone could offer a suggestion, I would appreciate it, as I am out of ideas, but I want to keep using widgets…

awesome, I have updated that, and I will see how it goes from here. Thanks for the help!

I’m not sure… There is a WYSIWYG editor that is there when I go to write a post – perhaps that is the rich text editor… how do I disable it?

I have never put it in myself. It is a tag I never use since I don’t find it too necessary to make the alternate versions for people not running javascript on their page. Maybe there is an open <noscript> tage somewhere in the rest of the code of the page, but that would be in the parts I didn’t write and don’t have control over… Which would make this a bug.