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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Blank home page…please help!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-home-pageplease-help/)
 *  [bortman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bortman/)
 * (@bortman)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-home-pageplease-help/#post-539972)
 * I had the same issue with a blank blog home page after install. My index.php 
   page in the WordPress install directory looked like this…
 *     ```
       <html><head>
       <title>Untitled</title>
       </head>
       <body>
       <?
       ?>
       </body><html>
       <head> <title>Untitled</title></head>
       <body>
       <?
       ?>
       </body></html></html>
       ```
   
 * I had a second site and copied the index.php page that read…
 *     ```
       <?php
       /* Short and sweet */
       define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
       require('./wp-blog-header.php');
       ?>
       ```
   
 * And it works just fine.

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