Title: Blank Theme Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Blank Theme * Resolved [meetlouiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meetlouiz/) * (@meetlouiz) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-theme-6/) * I’ll start by stating that I’ve read TONS of entries similar, but not exact, to my problem. * I have WordPress 2.9.2 installed on my server (www.antisteez.com). I have a “ developer” directory (www.antisteez.com/dev) with WordPress 2.9.2 also installed in it, just because I work on future themes in it and then just drag the theme to the main directory. * Just today, after a few months of working on a few themes, I upload a theme from the developer section to my main directory, just to preview it with my database, and it shows up blank. It works great on the developer site, though. * I’ve dealt with themes that show up blank on the preview for some reason, but are fine when you activate, so I activated. Of course it’s also blank when I activate it. My admin section is also blank. No errors, just a white page. * I FTPed the theme out and returned to my old theme. I did some research and made sure the directories were chmoded 777 and the files were 644. The preview screenshot works. I looked through function.php. I renamed the theme folder to make sure there are no “-” or “_”. And I’m pretty much stumped. * Any suggestions would help me out. Thanks in advance. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 19 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-theme-6/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-theme-6/page/2/?output_format=md) * Thread Starter [meetlouiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meetlouiz/) * (@meetlouiz) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-theme-6/#post-1534039) * Can anyone give me some sort of information? This is really important and I’m literally stuck. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-theme-6/#post-1534054) * Is the theme perhaps using any relative URLs to reference elements that don’t exist when calculated from your main directory? * Thread Starter [meetlouiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meetlouiz/) * (@meetlouiz) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-theme-6/#post-1534067) * It was the first thing I checked. * That maybe I forgot to re-link something, where it’s still looking in the developer directory. But nope. :/ * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-theme-6/#post-1534068) * Does the Default theme work? * Thread Starter [meetlouiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meetlouiz/) * (@meetlouiz) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-theme-6/#post-1534074) * Yes sir. Even uploading a theme from the WP database works fine. * I’m going to say it has something to do with the theme I created but it works fine on the other directory? * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-theme-6/#post-1534075) * Maybe there’s a plugin that it needs that is either not there or inactive? * Thread Starter [meetlouiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meetlouiz/) * (@meetlouiz) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-theme-6/#post-1534076) * No plugin is “needed”. I’m basically coding all the plugins myself. * I’m extremely stumped. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-theme-6/#post-1534079) * The only other thing that I can suggest (yes, I’m out of ideas too) is to increase PHP’s available memory: * ``` 1. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini If your line shows 32M try 64M: memory_limit = 64M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64MB) 2. If you don't have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file: php_value memory_limit 64M 3. Try adding this line to your wp-config.php file: Increasing memory allocated to PHP define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M'); 4. Talk to your host. ``` * Thread Starter [meetlouiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meetlouiz/) * (@meetlouiz) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-theme-6/#post-1534081) * I’ll give that a try and keep you updated, mac. Thanks a ton. * Thread Starter [meetlouiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meetlouiz/) * (@meetlouiz) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-theme-6/#post-1534085) * Where would I add that “WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M” and how do I code it? * I have wp-config open. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-theme-6/#post-1534086) * wp-config.php * And literally add `define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');` to the end of the file – before any closing `?>` php tag. * Thread Starter [meetlouiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meetlouiz/) * (@meetlouiz) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-theme-6/#post-1534087) * Okay, adding that to wp-config did nothing. I tried adding the other string to my .htaccess (which I already had one so I added it right before where it said# END WordPress) and it gave me a 500 Internal Error. So I obviously took it off. * 🙁 * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-theme-6/#post-1534088) * > I’m basically coding all the plugins myself. * Can you back-engineer and start commenting out any of the fancier elements in the theme? Given that you have a completely blank page, I’d start with anything that’s loaded in header.php or as part of wp_head(). Stripping down functions. php mightn’t be a bad idea either. * One things that hasn’t been mentioned thus far – any access to error logs? * Thread Starter [meetlouiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meetlouiz/) * (@meetlouiz) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-theme-6/#post-1534098) * I do not have access to error logs. * There are no plugins, or hard coded plugins in header. The only plugins I hard coded were small ones. Related posts, get images, post limiters. * Let me attempt to fool around with function.php. * Thread Starter [meetlouiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meetlouiz/) * (@meetlouiz) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-theme-6/#post-1534109) * Ok. So trying the deactivating of plugins and reactivating, worked. (hence the fact that it’s 2:30am in the morning and now is when I’m trying). * Just FYI, I am boycotting any Gravatar plugin and you guys should, too. LOL * Thanks a lot for your help. 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