Title: Admin white screen / errors
Last modified: September 10, 2019

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# Admin white screen / errors

 *  Resolved [giddykipper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giddykipper/)
 * (@giddykipper)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-white-screen-errors/)
 * The site is fine. However, in the admin dashboard it’s getting harder and harder
   to edit, save or change anything without the dashboard requiring several Ctrl-
   F5s to load. All sorts of messages fly by (site experiencing technical difficulties,
   check your admin email etc etc) and eventually all is OK, but for a real short
   time before ‘here we go again’. All help welcomed. This site is a separate WP
   install in a subdir, and the plugins are essentially the same as the mother site,
   which is fine. The server is all ours, so I can go ‘up to the elbows’ … hope 
   you can help 🙂
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fadmin-white-screen-errors%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-white-screen-errors/#post-11918682)
 * > site experiencing technical difficulties, check your admin email
 * WordPress 5.2 introduced new protection from sites crashing due to bad code (
   also known as a White Screen of Death, or WSOD for short).
 * If your site crashes, the technical difficulties message is shown, and an email
   is sent to the site admin with a way to log in and deactivate the plugin or theme
   causing problems, once that is done the site should start working again as expected.
 * If you didn’t get the email, you can look for an error log on your server to 
   see what the problem is. If you can’t find one, use DEBUG mode to log an error
   so you can fix it. [https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Debug](https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Debug)
 *  Thread Starter [giddykipper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giddykipper/)
 * (@giddykipper)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-white-screen-errors/#post-11919193)
 * Thanks T-P
    It’s not sending me emails, so I’ll see what debug can do tomorrow…
 *  Thread Starter [giddykipper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giddykipper/)
 * (@giddykipper)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-white-screen-errors/#post-11920679)
 * Ouchie! When I enabled debug, this is what happened — an empty white screen with
   the following at the top …
 * Deprecated: Function create_function() is deprecated in /home/andreww/public_html/
   Juniors/wp-content/plugins/embed-chessboard/embedchessboard.php on line 348
 * Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 41943040 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   135168 bytes) in /home/andreww/public_html/Juniors/wp-includes/pomo/streams.php
   on line 113
 * Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 41943040 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   135168 bytes) in /home/andreww/public_html/Juniors/wp-includes/pomo/streams.php
   on line 113
 * … so what now I wonder? I can contact the creator of the Embed Chessboard plugin
   but that looks like a huge amount of memory to be exhausted, unless I’m reading
   it wrong. Again, all help appreciated!
 *  Thread Starter [giddykipper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giddykipper/)
 * (@giddykipper)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-white-screen-errors/#post-11920916)
 * Addendum
    The first error is now taken care of with a plugin update, but there
   was only a temporary improvement. I will research the memory errors online, but
   anyone can get in touch in the meantime, and I’d be most grateful 🙂 AW
 *  Thread Starter [giddykipper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giddykipper/)
 * (@giddykipper)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-white-screen-errors/#post-11921004)
 * DUH! ‘Increase the memory size in wp-config’ they said. ‘It’ll work’ they said.
   And it did. I’ll get me coat …
 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-white-screen-errors/#post-11922257)
 * Glad it’s sorted 🙂

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## Tags

 * [admin only](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin-only/)
 * [uneditable](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/uneditable/)
 * [WSOD](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wsod/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-white-screen-errors/#post-11922257)
 * Status: resolved

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