I was early this morning (5 hrs ago) adding some new themes (from: http://themehybrid.com/themes)
However I believe after I activated "WP Full Site" (http://developdaly.com/themes/wpfullsite/) that the site then went completely blank, everything is just an empty white page. I can't access ANYWHERE! Even mysite.com/wp-admin/ is like that...
Any ideas what went wrong and how to fix it?
As I believe it was the theme changing which did it (how did it impact even wp-admin?!) I'm hopeful by changing the theme again I can fix this? Anyway to manually change this via ftp or through mysql?
FTP into your site and delete the wp-content/themes/wpfullsite folder. That should activate the default theme and get you back in.
cheers! but after I tried that.... I got this (with H1 markup!) at mysite.com:
Error establishing a database connection
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edit: I'm a moron! Of course it couldn't establish a DB connection as I changed the mysql password :s
But once I fixed that in the configure file it still doesn't work
I've decided to delete everything on the webserver and and replace it with a fresh wordpress download
hopefully this will work? will only need to reupload the a few themes and put back the google analytics code
that is if I keep my fingers crossed the mysql database is fine and won't need to be fixed, as that is holding all the posts in it :s
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update: I've done a completely clean reinstall from a wordpress downloaded off this site only a few minutes ago, yet still I'm getting everything as completely blank!
getting very worrying as I've now found a total of FOUR people have written about more or less exactly the same problem, all in the space of just a few hours:
Myself:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/368205
VevisoEnterprises:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/36783
kalanyuz:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/367948
Aga1:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/368148
Given that there have already more than 5 million downloads of WP 2.9 - many by people with little or no technical expertise - 3* threads in a few hours where people have experienced early install/theme activation problems isn't bad going. It certainly doesn't hint at any bugs or core issues. If that was the case, there would be hundreds of threads in a few hours.
1. Did you empty out the database when you re-installed?
2. Have you tried setting up a new database?
3. Did you install any themes or plugins?
* The VevisoEnterprises topic was over 4 years old.
I don't want to empty out the database as I'd lose all the posts that have been made
I haven't installed any themes or plugins on the new reinstallation as I can't even access wp-admin!
As for VevisoEnterprise, a typo is there (left a one off):
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/367831
(which IS only a few hours before my problems, but yes... I do get your point that if it is a bug/core issue then you'd see many more, however I still think it is a somewhat odd coincidence)
stereostokey
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Posted 2 years ago #
I had the same issue (trying to activate Buddymatic after using Thematic Power Blog with Buddypress installed).
You can manually select a different installed theme by changing the fields "template" and "stylesheet" in the table "wp_options" in MySQL. Simply enter the folder name of the theme.
I've got my site and admin interface back. Phew!
mathmo
