myrab

I’m just posting a follow up that I thought would be helpful.
I’m not trying to bump the thread or anything (hey, my problem’s resolved).

After I discovered that the codexsearch.php plugin was the culprit and removed it, I looked at my php log (shoulda looked sooner) and it had multiple entries like this:

“[13-Jun-2006 03:46:24] PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /big/dom/x[domain]/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/codexsearch.php:2) in /big/dom/x[domain]/www/blog/wp-rss2.php on line 8
&
[13-Jun-2006 19:40:11] PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /big/dom/x[domain]/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/codexsearch.php:2) in /big/dom/x[domain]/www/blog/wp-includes/pluggable-functions.php on line 325″

So the php log was very specific and helpful, which most of you probably already know.

Also, since I’ve tried about 15 different themes and none of them crashed my dash, I’ll editorialize that in my experience plugins are especially risky to install. Some have had problems with themes, but not me.

Cheers,

Myra

Thank you so much HandySolo. I actually found the problem thanks to some archived forum material. Hope this helps someone else:

The cause was a plugin that WordPress choked on. Apparently that’s a common cause of the white screen of death (along with bad themes as indicated in this thread).

In my case I went into the wp-content/plugins directory and realized that the plugin I added most recently was codexsearch.php. I moved it out of the plugins directory and my dashboard started right up the next time I tried.

So, caveat and all. Don’t upload plugins promiscuously. In fact I may swear off of them.

Thanks again for all the help here.

Myra

Thank you bdieu. I tried doing as you suggested and moving batavia1.5 out of the themes directory and it didn’t help. In fact now I have no nice looking theme so my blog looks awful, and I can’t get into my dashboard to activate my theme so I’m sorta stuck.

If this many people have the same problem could there be some central cause? Does WordPress depend on anything but locally installed files?

Or is this amount of people with this exact problem at the same time fairly standard?

Thanks again.

Myra

I’m having that exact problem. I login to dashboard with correct user name and password, and I get a blank white screen. Same result on firefox and IE.

I installed WordPress just a few days ago, so it’s the latest version, and all was well until today. I can get to the blog: https://www.consignedesign.com/blog/, but I can’t get to the dashboard: https://consignedesign.com/blog/wp-admin/.
Can’t get past: https://consignedesign.com/blog/wp-login.php.

Since it’s affecting multiple users it seems to be related to WordPress rather than my webhost.

Can anyone offer any input?

Thanks very much.

Myra

You totally got the point HandySolo! Both you and Otto42 gave me parallel solutions. Thank you both so much for the solutions, and for the fact that you responded so quickly.

You and this forum are great.

Regards,

Myra

Sorry HandySolo. It’s https://consignedesign.com/blog/

One example is under the blog titled “Setting up an internal search engine, which one?” Third paragraph has a URL: https://www.freefind.com/. But it’s not clickable/underlined.

And thanks for being so tactful.

Myra

Wow, thank you so much Nazgul, Viper007Bond, manstraw, Marc. This is all exactly what I needed to know. I had no idea that there was html embedded in the php. Is that typical of php-for it to contain segments of html? Can a webpage be written with only php and style sheets?

You’re not obliged to answer! I’m just wondering out loud. I’ll be studying php soon so maybe I’ll come back and answer my own question.

Thank you again everyone. I really appreciate all the detail. Hm, this is my first thread here and I hope I don’t screw it up. I may need to set it to “resolved” or something. I’ll poke around and see…

Myra

Thank you very much for the reply Marc. So if I wanted to change the content of the main blog page, for example add some navigation, then I’d have to know php, eh? Hm, well gotta learn sometime…

Myra