Title: [Plugin: Ultimate Maintenance Mode] White Screen
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Ultimate Maintenance Mode] White Screen

 *  Resolved [tkjm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tkjm/)
 * (@tkjm)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ultimate-maintenance-mode-white-screen/)
 * After activating plugin, a blank white screen appears. De-activating the plugin
   solves this issue but then the site is obviously not in maintenance mode.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-maintenance-mode/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-maintenance-mode/)

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 *  [turnerjd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/turnerjd/)
 * (@turnerjd)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ultimate-maintenance-mode-white-screen/#post-2967457)
 * Sounds like there is a conflict with another plugin. If you want you can list
   eh plugins you have installed and I’ll see if I can recreate the issue.
 *  [sthahn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sthahn/)
 * (@sthahn)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ultimate-maintenance-mode-white-screen/#post-2967798)
 * Same problem here:
    My installed plugins are: Adminimize Akismet BackWPup Contact
   Form 7 emObA Exec-PHP Google XML Sitemaps Gwolle Guestbook Jetpack von WordPress.
   com Link Library Mail On Update NextGEN Gallery Post Expirator TinyMCE Advanced
   WordPress Database Backup WP-Print WP Security Scan
 *  Plugin Author [John Turner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnnytee/)
 * (@johnnytee)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ultimate-maintenance-mode-white-screen/#post-2967799)
 * I’ll take a look at this today and see if I can spot the conflict.
 *  Thread Starter [tkjm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tkjm/)
 * (@tkjm)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ultimate-maintenance-mode-white-screen/#post-2967800)
 * It may be related to how the host handles the header status. Just a thought. 
   One of the problem sites was being hosted on FatCow.
 * sthahn – Who is your site hosted with?
 *  Plugin Author [John Turner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnnytee/)
 * (@johnnytee)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ultimate-maintenance-mode-white-screen/#post-2967801)
 * Yeah I have seen this before as well. The plugin returns a 503 header status 
   and some how just show a white screen Good call [@tkjm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tkjm/)
   🙂
 * Post you url and I can take a look a the response headers.
 *  Thread Starter [tkjm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tkjm/)
 * (@tkjm)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ultimate-maintenance-mode-white-screen/#post-2967802)
 * We realized this was the issue when we installed a different maintenance plugin
   and received the same result. (I’m assuming it was returning a 503 header status
   as well.)
 * To correct this issue with our site we had to comment out the response headers.
   We realize this isn’t ideal but we weren’t able to receive any kind of worthwhile
   support from FatCow and it’s better than a blank page. Showing a blank page is
   an incorrect action on FatCow’s part – the 503 header status is appropriate for
   this implementation.
 * I’m assuming there is nothing we can do on our end to bypass the blank page other
   than commenting out the response header. We’re up for any suggestions though!
 *  Plugin Author [John Turner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnnytee/)
 * (@johnnytee)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ultimate-maintenance-mode-white-screen/#post-2967803)
 * I’m going to add an option to disable the 503 header output. That’s about the
   only option I have from my end.
 *  [sthahn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sthahn/)
 * (@sthahn)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ultimate-maintenance-mode-white-screen/#post-2967805)
 * Should this problem really appear right after installing and activating the plugin?
   
   Does it really put the page into maintenance mode right after installing?
 * I would have thought, that I have to set an option somewhere…
 * My hoster is campusspeicher.de.
    The URL of the page is [http://www.feuerwehr-damp.de](http://www.feuerwehr-damp.de).
   At the moment, I deactivated the themes and hopefully this weekend I’ll find 
   some time to see which other plugin is causing the problem…
 *  [sthahn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sthahn/)
 * (@sthahn)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ultimate-maintenance-mode-white-screen/#post-2967806)
 * Ok, just activated the plugin again.
    The page seems to be working, but when 
   I try to open the plugin page in the backend, I get a white blank screen 🙁 This
   seems to be the only page affected…
 *  [sthahn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sthahn/)
 * (@sthahn)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ultimate-maintenance-mode-white-screen/#post-2967807)
 * Ok, I tried some more:
    I deactivated all the plugins. And activated one by one.
   When I activated the last one of my list (Adminimize) the blank screen occured.
   So I deactivated all the plugins and only activated ultimate maintenance mode
   and adminize but the everything was ok. Then I activated all the other plugins
   and still everything was fine. Then Jetpack wants to connect to wordpress.com,
   so I authorized it, and the blank screen was back. Any ideas?
 *  Plugin Author [John Turner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnnytee/)
 * (@johnnytee)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ultimate-maintenance-mode-white-screen/#post-2967808)
 * I’ll test with those plugins today and get back to you.
 *  [sthahn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sthahn/)
 * (@sthahn)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ultimate-maintenance-mode-white-screen/#post-2967821)
 * Hi!
    Just to let you know: The problem was memory related. My hoster did not 
   display error messages so I did not see immediately… Got a memory upgrade and
   everything is working fine so far. (Need 128 MB to run WordPress…)
 *  Plugin Author [John Turner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnnytee/)
 * (@johnnytee)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ultimate-maintenance-mode-white-screen/#post-2967822)
 * Thanks for the update 🙂

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