Title: Blank screen Last modified: August 31, 2016 --- # Blank screen * [wPcoMuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpcomuser/) * (@wpcomuser) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-screen-64/) * … On a separate install of WP, I got all pages resulting a blank screen. Again, could not debug the issue. Disabling iThemes Security fixed the issue. * I cannot trace this error. This paralleled the same error on a completely separate site, except those pages contained the word “error”. That issue is dealt with in another thread and this one has been broken out at moderator request. * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/) Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/) * (@dwinden) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-screen-64/#post-7009158) * [@wpcomuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpcomuser/) * Thank you for opening a seperate topic for this issue. * Did you try setting WP_DEBUG to true in the wp-config.php file ? * And did you check your web server error_log file for any errors ? * dwinden * Thread Starter [wPcoMuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpcomuser/) * (@wpcomuser) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-screen-64/#post-7009188) * Notice: add_option was called with an argument that is deprecated since version 2.3 with no alternative available. in /x/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3739 * Notice: The called constructor method for WP_Widget is deprecated since version 4.3.0! Use __construct() instead. in /x/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3624 * Notice: The called constructor method for WP_Widget is deprecated since version 4.3.0! Use __construct() instead. in /x/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3624 * Notice: The called constructor method for WP_Widget is deprecated since version 4.3.0! Use __construct() instead. in /x/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3624 * Thread Starter [wPcoMuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpcomuser/) * (@wpcomuser) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-screen-64/#post-7009189) * None of these line items are helpful, unfortunately, as functions.php at those points is just the code for these errors. * I’m now of course locked out of my site again. FTP’g in, and renaming the security plugin directory (to kill it) fixes the blank screen. * Thread Starter [wPcoMuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpcomuser/) * (@wpcomuser) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-screen-64/#post-7009191) * error_log shows the same hits as the WP error messages : functions.php errors at those same line items. * [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/) * (@dwinden) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-screen-64/#post-7009202) * [@wpcomuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpcomuser/) * Even though these are just notices I think its certainly worth the trouble to find out the exact origin and if possible fix them. These notices do indicate aged code that no longer complies to the current WP release (4.4.1) standards. I assume this is in a WP 4.4.1 env, right ? * I don’t really expect solving these notices will have any impact on the blank page issue, but you never know … It won’t hurt to fix these notices. * Install and activate the oik-bwtrace plugin for tracing the exact origin of the obsolete notices. * dwinden * Thread Starter [wPcoMuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpcomuser/) * (@wpcomuser) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-screen-64/#post-7009330) * Just to advise I upgraded to 5.2.1 today. Reactivated plug-in, and result is a working home page but every other page is blank. Deactivated and no issues any more. * I do not have a lot of time for testing, but will try to check back here periodically and help resolve this issue. * Yes, my WP is 4.4.1. * [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/) * (@dwinden) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-screen-64/#post-7009336) * [@wpcomuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpcomuser/) * First of all the iTSec plugin 5.2.1 release seems to be working fine on either WP 4.4.1 or 4.4.2. So that means your issue is probably specific for this env. * Second of all I would recommend to fix the notices as advised in my previous post. * After reading the entire topic I think it is going to be hard to resolve this issue without access to the env. * dwinden * Thread Starter [wPcoMuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpcomuser/) * (@wpcomuser) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-screen-64/#post-7009347) * Since I have no clue how to use this trace, and there appear to be no easily identifiable errors relating to those notices in this log, I guess we’ve tracked this as far as it can go. * Thread Starter [wPcoMuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpcomuser/) * (@wpcomuser) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-screen-64/#post-7009348) * I got the trace running but no clear indication of which plugin is causing the issue. I don’t know what to look for and the log is very large. * I got timeouts with Internet Security enabled for a while. Disabling and re-enabling seems to have solved the issue. Will continue testing. * Thread Starter [wPcoMuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpcomuser/) * (@wpcomuser) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-screen-64/#post-7009349) * By randomly enabling and disabling plugins, I believe there is a conflict between WP-Super Cache and Internet Security. However, once the error is triggered and blank screens result, even turning off Super Cache does not fix the issue. 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