Title: WordPress Fatal error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WordPress Fatal error

 *  Resolved [Jared Volpe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vipersdream/)
 * (@vipersdream)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-fatal-error/)
 * I need some help. I am not sure what happened. I can view and use my admin, but
   my site is a blank white page. So I got to thinking and enter the path to my 
   index.php to see what would happen [http://www.park.plainspacedesign.com/wp-content/themes/hemingway/index.php](http://www.park.plainspacedesign.com/wp-content/themes/hemingway/index.php)
   
   I got the following error:
 * Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in /home/.manchu/plainspace1/
   park.plainspacedesign.com/wp-content/themes/hemingway/index.php on line 1
 * Does this make any sense?

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 *  Thread Starter [Jared Volpe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vipersdream/)
 * (@vipersdream)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-fatal-error/#post-621975)
 * PS I am hosting this on subdomain for development with DreamHost.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-fatal-error/#post-621976)
 * Visit Options -> General. What do you have for the two URL fields? Try without
   the leading “www”.
 *  Thread Starter [Jared Volpe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vipersdream/)
 * (@vipersdream)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-fatal-error/#post-621978)
 * Thanks for your quick reply.
 * I had [http://www.park.plainspacedesign.com](http://www.park.plainspacedesign.com)
   in both and I tried [http://park.plainspacedesign.com](http://park.plainspacedesign.com)
   but nothing changed as far as I can tell. I did add another subdomain to plainspacedesign.
   com to do some testing on of the same site/database and then deleted them (the
   second site/db) after this happened. Do you have any other thoughts about what
   this could be? Is it strange that I can use the admin and see the database through
   it and use phpmyadmin and see the database (both intact) though I can’t see the
   site? Also I can see the WordPress readme.html at the root level of the subdomain
   [here](http://www.park.plainspacedesign.com/readme.html).
 * Gack!
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-fatal-error/#post-621979)
 * The index.php at that root level sure doesn’t look like the one that comes with
   WordPress.
 *  Thread Starter [Jared Volpe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vipersdream/)
 * (@vipersdream)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-fatal-error/#post-621980)
 * You can see something? I don’t get anything here but the fatal error mentioned
   above:
    [http://park.plainspacedesign.com/wp-content/themes/hemingway/index.php](http://park.plainspacedesign.com/wp-content/themes/hemingway/index.php)
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-fatal-error/#post-621981)
 * [http://www.park.plainspacedesign.com/index.php](http://www.park.plainspacedesign.com/index.php)
 * Browsing straight into your theme directory usually won’t get too far (although
   it DOES show something there, thankfully).
 *  Thread Starter [Jared Volpe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vipersdream/)
 * (@vipersdream)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-fatal-error/#post-621982)
 * Weird – I get a blank page when I view the link you sent.
 *  Thread Starter [Jared Volpe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vipersdream/)
 * (@vipersdream)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-fatal-error/#post-621998)
 * HandySolo was all over this. He suggested changing themes and it worked. It seems
   like there was something wrong with my custom theme – that’s all. He’s the man!!!

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 * Last reply from: [Jared Volpe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vipersdream/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-fatal-error/#post-621998)
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