Sounds like the “failed to return blog to default theme before processing upgrade” problem.
Try accessing /wp-admin/ directly through your browser, then go to Presentations, select a theme, make sure you see it change to Active Theme, then click View Site.
when you say access /wp-admin/ directly, I assume you mean:
Type:
http://www.gibblog.com/blog3/wp-admin/
into my browser address bar. If you mean something else please let me know. I did try typing the above into the address bar and I still get a blank page.
Yes, that’s what I meant. That being the case, I would suggest downloading a fresh distro, uncompress, and reupload – or if you can just upload the distro, uncompress on the server. Sometimes files get corrupted in the upload process….
I see you have no blank pages anymore. How did your problem got solved? I have the same problem
What I did to rectify the problem was this:
1. I went to rentacoder.com and posted a bid wanted for someone to fix my blog.
2. A guy who is active in the wordpress community bid $25 which seemed reasonable – he was based in the US, knew wordpress, seemed like he was “into” wordpress too, so I modified my password, gave it to him, and let him fix it.
3. He fixed it pretty quickly. The steps he took were:
i) He looked in the error logs (which are contained in the /logs subdirectory of the root – I did not know these logs existed, and finding out about them alone is worth the $25 I believe).
ii) the logs indicated that wordpress was complaining about a missing file “Failed opening required ‘/blog3/wp-content/advanced-cache.php'”
iii) He then uploaded this file and the whole system came to life.
I have no idea how my upgrade failed to include that file, but anyway, now its fixed and that’s the main thing. Feel free to chip in for my $25 if this fixes your problem :);)
i dont have such file either do you care to share it with others?
the advanced-cache.php i mean
