Title: Edit page blank
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Edit page blank

 *  [humeston316](https://wordpress.org/support/users/humeston316/)
 * (@humeston316)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-page-blank-3/)
 * Two problems:
    1) Some of my older posts I cannot edit. When I try to the edit
   page is blank. 2) Searching support forum shows dozens of similar issues, all
   of them unsolved, and many of them five years old. I have spent 40 minutes going
   through the forums trying this and that, and no resolution. It would be nice 
   if we could search the forum by date. That way I could only search just for the
   last year or last six months. I doubt I will find a solution from posts five 
   years ago. The forum issue is more frustrating than my original problem.
 * Yes, I have deactivated all plugins and reactivated, and perform all the other
   standard options. Still blank pages.
 * The theme is Hellish Simplicity.
    I use it on another site and it works great,
   no issues. If anyone has a recent solution I would appreciate it. Thanks.

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 *  [WordPress Virus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/navneilnaicker/)
 * (@navneilnaicker)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-page-blank-3/#post-6087675)
 * Did you try by changing the Theme. It can be a problem with the ‘_**Hellish Simplicity**_‘
   or something must be wrong somewhere. If you confirm that would be great.
 *  [WordPress Virus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/navneilnaicker/)
 * (@navneilnaicker)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-page-blank-3/#post-6087676)
 * I just tried ‘_**Hellish Simplicity**_‘ without any issue. Did you add any code
   in your functions.php file? You can turn on the debug mode in wp-config.php.
 *  Thread Starter [humeston316](https://wordpress.org/support/users/humeston316/)
 * (@humeston316)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-page-blank-3/#post-6087696)
 * Thanks for the suggestions. No, I have not added anything to functions.php. I
   tried another theme, Twenty-Fifteen and the same issue exists. However, something
   must have changed somewhere. I also have odd characters in some of the older 
   posts. question mark in black where spaces should be, Not sure if these are related.
 * Appreciate any other suggestions,
    Thanks
 *  [JohnP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnp/)
 * (@johnp)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-page-blank-3/#post-6087711)
 * I have a site like this. Very old posts that are not encoded UTF-8 do not show
   up in the edit screen like you describe. They also don’t display characters like
   quotation marks or apostrophes, etc.
 * If I need to edit these posts I just copy all the text from the public facing
   page into the editor and it’s all good from then on.
 * I think there is a way to update the whole database at once, but I’ve been too
   nervous to try this.
 *  Thread Starter [humeston316](https://wordpress.org/support/users/humeston316/)
 * (@humeston316)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-page-blank-3/#post-6087732)
 * I did the same thong and it seemed to work. But I have over 1,200 posts. There
   is a way to do this globally? A plugin?
 * thanks for replying, I appreciate it.
    Dart

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [humeston316](https://wordpress.org/support/users/humeston316/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-page-blank-3/#post-6087732)
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