mcdukenet
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Posted 4 years ago #
Yes, I did search, and found some threads, but most seemed to be about new installations causing problems. I used a 1.5 nightly for some months without problems, and today upgraded to 1.5 final, and... Blank pages everywhere. (index and permalinks, nothing.) Only the admin interface works, my old posts all seem to be well and healthy, just nothing gets displayed. Is there a known solution to this problem already? I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with my PHP or MySQL version, since the nighties worked fine...
Thanks for any info
mcdukenet
Member
Posted 4 years ago #
Downgraded to the 1.5-beta-1 nightly again. Phew. I guess this is a bug in the final 1.5 release, judging from the number of threads on this issue. Hope it gets fixed quickly, and sorry for creating yet another thread.
When I had this happen, it turned out I'd not swapped to the new toplevel index.php (Mine is normally one level above my WP install, so changing it is something I have to remember to do separately when upgrading.)
Anyway, the 1.5-strayhorn index.php is different from that of the betas, and using one from a beta will give you a blank page, although everything looks fine from the admin side.
mcdukenet
Member
Posted 4 years ago #
Wow, thanks very much, that worked. I wonder why the upgrade instructions explicitely tell you to _not_ upgrade the index.php file when keeping the old one is what causes the blank pages..
As I recall, the intent is for you to preserve your old index.php *within the folder created for your blog* inside the themes folder. You may remember there's three bits of it that you need to edit, and that's so that it works correctly with the new index.php.
Doing things this way means that you can keep on just as you were before the upgrade, and make theme-related or theme-enabled changes when you're ready to do so, instead of having to do it all at once before anything works.
Upgrade Guide (includes instructions on how to turn v1.2.x templates into v1.5 themes): http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/upgrade/
distortedstar
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Posted 4 years ago #
Hello All. I've just discovered WordPress, and I think it's really great; however I'm having a similar problem. I just installed 1.5, and everything works great in Firefox. However in IE my blog displays as a blank page. Is this a CSS problem? the background of the blank page is the color I have specified in my style sheet...but I checked it at W3C.Org and it validates. Not sure what do...any help would be appreciated.
Did you run /wp-admin/upgrade.php?
distortedstar
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Posted 4 years ago #
distortedstar
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Posted 4 years ago #
Just to let everyone know, I had deleted an unnecessary <style type="text/css"> tag that must've gotten put in on accident while I was porting my theme. Aparently Firefox just overlooked it, while IE caught the error and freaked.
DigitalArchivist
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Posted 4 years ago #
I upgraded to 1.5 earlier this week (Feb 14). While there were slight display discrepancies between IE 6 and Firefox 1, both browsers displayed my site up until today. I had done some work on the new Default theme, but am not sure what I messed up, but my site no longer displays in Firefox. I can view the Admin side ok in Firefox, but can not view the published site. Any ideas gratefully received. Site is at http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress
I'm getting this error message:
"Safari can’t open the page “http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/�.
The error was: “bad server response� (NSURLErrorDomain:-1011)"
You may want to contact your hosting provider.
DigitalArchivist
Member
Posted 4 years ago #
Ok, thanks for that additional info macmanx. Interesting that IE doesn't care about these errors and loads up the site fine. I did check around the Support forum for other advice before posting. The site appears to be sending out text/css. I cleared the browser cache and have not disabled styles through the Web Developer extension.
DigitalArchivist
Member
Posted 4 years ago #
I contacted my ISP. Haven't heard back. I also noticed that with Firefox, when I View Source, all I get are the HTML and Body tags. When I View Source with IE, I can see the complete HTML markup.
DigitalArchivist
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Posted 4 years ago #
I discovered what the problem as with my site. It was two plugins by developer Nick Momrik, his moderate pingbacks and moderate trackbacks plugins. Either them cause Mozilla Firefox to throw up blank pages. Not knowing where to start to resolve this problem, I reinstalled WordPress into a new directory and starting copying changed files over, testing each upload in Firefox. Then I logged in and activated the plugins. Only after his two plugins were turned on did Firefox start throwing out blank pages. It didn't matter which of the plugins was turned on, one or the other, or both, same problem, blank pages in Firefox. I've sent him a note so he's aware of the issue. They look to be like extremely useful plugins for combatting trackback spam.
DigitalArchivist
Member
Posted 4 years ago #
Nick Momrik promptly came through with a quick and easy fix to my problem so Firefox no longer displays blank pages. Lesson learned: check plugins first if site goes wonky.
