Theme blank/white when activated or previewed

  • dblizzy42

    (@dblizzy42)


    14 years, 2 months ago

    I’ve scoured the forums and the web for a solve but nothing yet…

    I created a theme based on Starkers (http://starkerstheme.com) and it works perfectly on my “dev” site. I took the theme folder and copied it to my client’s wordpress theme folder. When I try to activate or preview the theme, it’s blank. Just white. HTML/CSS is all there, but nothing shows.

    I’ve read that it might be a naming problem, but my theme uses neither hyphens nor underscores nor spaces. I tried upping the memory in wp-config.php. Tried deleting the functions.php. Tried activating/deactivating plugins (both his and mine), one by one. Made sure I’m running PHP5 everywhere.

    For what it’s worth, everywhere else I install the theme (other servers, sites) have the same problem, so it’s definitely the theme. I’ve made themes based on Starkers before that have travelled just fine. Not sure what’s going on with this one… any help much appreciated.

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  • Chip Bennett

    (@chipbennett)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    What errors are reported by WP_DEBUG? You are primarily concerned with Fatal Error reports.

    Also: do you have a live link to the site in question?

    Thread Starter dblizzy42

    (@dblizzy42)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks Chip. Here’s the error (just debugged right before you answered, good thinking)

    Notice: is_feed was called incorrectly. Conditional query tags do not work before the query is run. Before then, they always return false. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 3.1.) in /nfs/c08/h04/mnt/123733/domains/danrose.me/html/dev/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3587

    http://danrose.me/dev

    Chip Bennett

    (@chipbennett)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    You’re looking specifically for Fatal error messages. You might need to view source to see it. Most likely, you’ve got an undefined function error somewhere.

    I tried your link, but it asked for authorization creds.

    Thread Starter dblizzy42

    (@dblizzy42)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks a ton Chip. That led me to see that I was calling functions that relied on plugins being installed, which they weren’t yet. Now it’s all better. Mucho, mucho gracias sir!

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