Title: EVERYTHING has gone blank Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # EVERYTHING has gone blank * [mathmo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mathmo/) * (@mathmo) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/everything-has-gone-blank/) * I was early this morning (5 hrs ago) adding some new themes (from: [http://themehybrid.com/themes](http://themehybrid.com/themes)) * However I believe after I activated “WP Full Site” ([http://developdaly.com/themes/wpfullsite/](http://developdaly.com/themes/wpfullsite/)) that the site then went completely blank, everything is just an empty white page. I can’t access ANYWHERE! Even mysite.com/wp-admin/ is like that… * Any ideas what went wrong and how to fix it? * As I believe it was the theme changing which did it (how did it impact even wp- admin?!) I’m hopeful by changing the theme again I can fix this? Anyway to manually change this via ftp or through mysql? Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/everything-has-gone-blank/#post-1399822) * FTP into your site and delete the wp-content/themes/wpfullsite folder. That should activate the default theme and get you back in. * Thread Starter [mathmo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mathmo/) * (@mathmo) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/everything-has-gone-blank/#post-1399827) * cheers! but after I tried that…. I got this (with H1 markup!) at mysite.com: * Error establishing a database connection * ============== edit: I’m a moron! Of course it couldn’t establish a DB connection as I changed the mysql password :s * But once I fixed that in the configure file it still doesn’t work * Thread Starter [mathmo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mathmo/) * (@mathmo) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/everything-has-gone-blank/#post-1399831) * I’ve decided to delete everything on the webserver and and replace it with a fresh wordpress download * hopefully this will work? will only need to reupload the a few themes and put back the google analytics code * that is if I keep my fingers crossed the mysql database is fine and won’t need to be fixed, as that is holding all the posts in it :s * ========================= * update: I’ve done a completely clean reinstall from a wordpress downloaded off this site only a few minutes ago, yet still I’m getting everything as completely blank! * Thread Starter [mathmo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mathmo/) * (@mathmo) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/everything-has-gone-blank/#post-1399837) * getting very worrying as I’ve now found a total of FOUR people have written about more or less exactly the same problem, all in the space of just a few hours: * Myself: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/368205](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/368205) * VevisoEnterprises: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/36783](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/36783) * kalanyuz: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/367948](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/367948) * Aga1: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/368148](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/368148) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/everything-has-gone-blank/#post-1400041) * Given that there have already more than 5 million downloads of WP 2.9 – many by people with little or no technical expertise – 3* threads in a few hours where people have experienced early install/theme activation problems isn’t bad going. It certainly doesn’t hint at any bugs or core issues. If that was the case, there would be **hundreds** of threads in a few hours. * 1. Did you empty out the database when you re-installed? * 2. Have you tried setting up a new database? * 3. Did you install any themes or plugins? * * The VevisoEnterprises topic was over 4 years old. * Thread Starter [mathmo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mathmo/) * (@mathmo) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/everything-has-gone-blank/#post-1400086) * I don’t want to empty out the database as I’d lose all the posts that have been made * I haven’t installed any themes or plugins on the new reinstallation as I can’t even access wp-admin! * As for VevisoEnterprise, a typo is there (left a one off): [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/367831](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/367831)( which IS only a few hours before my problems, but yes… I do get your point that if it is a bug/core issue then you’d see many more, however I still think it is a somewhat odd coincidence) * [tomschulze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stereostokey/) * (@stereostokey) * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/everything-has-gone-blank/#post-1400179) * I had the same issue (trying to activate Buddymatic after using Thematic Power Blog with Buddypress installed). * You can manually select a different installed theme by changing the fields “template” and “stylesheet” in the table “wp_options” in MySQL. Simply enter the folder name of the theme. * I’ve got my site and admin interface back. Phew! Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘EVERYTHING has gone blank’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [blank site](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/blank-site/) * [Hybrid Theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hybrid-theme/) * [Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/themes/) * [wp-admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-admin/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 7 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [tomschulze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stereostokey/) * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/everything-has-gone-blank/#post-1400179) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics