Multi-Site Network Admin White Screen

  • Anthony

    (@anmith88)


    12 years, 11 months ago

    I have been running into this issue since the new Network Admin area was introduced. Basically if I try to update plugins, edit site details, upgrade network sites, basically anything in the new Network Admin area I just get a white screen.

    For example, I was recently trying to update some settings for a blog. I entered the settings that I was trying to change and clicked “Save Changes” the I get to a white screen. If I go back to the network admin and navigate back to the site that I just edited I can see that the changes have been made… so everything “works” I am just getting this incredibly annoying white screen… Though I will say that when I am updating plugins sometimes it works sometimes it dosn’t. Especially when I am updating multiple plugins, sometimes one or two will update but the rest won’t.

    A little about my network. I currently host about 150 blogs on this network, and I am also using buddypress. Everything front facing on the site appears to work fine, just in this network admin area things go wonky.

    In my previous experiences with WordPress whites screens generally meant that I ran out of memory. But in this case I have updated the memory limits to 2 or 3 times what they were and am still having problems. So I am thinking it is not just a plain memory issue.

    Anyone have any ideas?

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 11 months ago

    White Screen of Death == a PHP error.

    What were you changing? Can you un-do it via the database? Was it a plugin you can delete temporarily to disabple?

    Thread Starter Anthony

    (@anmith88)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Maybe I should have used a better example. I am trying to update or edit blog details from the sites menu in the new Network admin area. Things as simple as updating the sites name, or more complex such as updating its url.

    It doesn’t matter the change, it always goes white screen. Beings as I have a plethora of plugins I guess it could be one of them, expect that what I am updating has little to nothing to do with any plugins..

    Jerry Craig

    (@cupbearer)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    sounds like somewhere in the options tables that it’s trying to point to an incorrect url since you can manually back out of everything and back into the right screen and it’s updated. Which plugin where you trying to update when you went about “saving” the changes, was it the same one all the time? I would guess that the plugin coder put in some hard code redirection to a page that isn’t there. Maybe post something in the plugin’s forum to make sure that it’s working to the latest version of x.x.2.

    Thread Starter Anthony

    (@anmith88)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Its not a plugin that I am updating at all, this is core wordpress stuff that I am doing here. As I have said this happens in several different situations, updating users, updating blogs, updating plugins, etc. It is not isolated to a single plugins or event.

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Yes, we understand what you are doing, but you still haven’t answered the question. 😉

    Did you disable all your plugins?
    Have you read the error logs on your server?

    Also – generally speaking, even though the edit Site info is there, normally you do not go in there to edit details on a daily basis. you can really muck things up. It’s mostly for convenience so you can *see* what values are there and fix typos or recover a site.

    If you’re editing the site details to do things like change the domain name… you need a plugin for that.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Which would mean, if you changed the URL there, go into the database and change it back.

    Jerry Craig

    (@cupbearer)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Permissions? Super Admin settings? Are you logged in as an Author or someone else when you are messing with those settings? Or permissions on the server for read/write to the different folder for the network admin stuff since 3.0+?

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