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  • Resolved tvansant

    (@tvansant)


    I’m putting this here in the hope that it might save other users some digging through old posts.

    I was making some changes to my (child) theme when I suddenly was unable to preview changes to a post. The post still updated and my blog appeared to be displaying the way I wanted it, just no preview — a blank page instead. Then I started getting blank pages on my dashboard.

    I used FTP and thought I had undone all the changes to my theme, getting it back to where it worked. I was still getting blank pages on my dashboard. I read through 8 or 10 posts here, some of which were a few years old, with all the usual suggestions of reverting to default theme and disabling all plug-ins.

    When I reverted to the default theme I got my dashboard back, so I looked more carefully at the changes I had made. Turns out, I had an error in the functions.php for my child theme. I had an extra php call, so it was like:

    <?php
    /***** Load parent css *****/
    code code code
    
    /***** Changes to parent functions *****/
    code code code
    
     ?>
    
    <?php
    /***** More changes to parent functions *****/
    code code code
    
     ?>

    When I took out those extra closing/opening tags in the middle it all started working again.

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