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Sure, I use a custom version of the Street Child theme for Thematic.

I decided to switch my theme to the base thematic theme to see if the admin blank page/redirection issues still occurred, and surprisingly, once I switched the them, everything worked fine.

So I then uploaded a stock version of the Street Child theme to see if that had any issues, and actually that & W3TC had no conflicts.

So at that point I figured there must be a conflict with some of the modifications I’d made. Through the process of elimination, I was able to whittle the problem area down to my version of the functions file.

In my functions file, I had the following code (in addition to others):

<?php
function childtheme_create_stylesheet() {
$templatedir = get_bloginfo('template_directory');
$stylesheetdir = get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory');
/* <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $templatedir ?>/library/styles/reset.css" /> */
?>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $stylesheetdir ?>/thematic.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $stylesheetdir ?>/style.css" />
<?php
}
add_filter('thematic_create_stylesheet', 'childtheme_create_stylesheet');
?>

<?php
function goingup() {
$gu_siteid="bpmzrib";
$gu_param = "st=".$gu_siteid."&ref=".urlencode($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']).
"&vip=".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."&ua=".urlencode($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']).
"&cur=".urlencode("http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])."&b=5";
@readfile("http://counter.goingup.com/phptrack.php?".$gu_param);
 ?>
<?php }
add_filter( 'thematic_after', 'goingup' );
?>

The upper calls the style sheet into the header, the latter a tracking code into the footer. I found that when I deleted only one of the code chunks, I still ran into the admin blank page/redirect issue. But when I deleted both of the codes from the functions file, everything worked fine. The problem only started occurring after I began running the W3TC plugin – unless I had both the database caching and database caching debug options checked off.

So I reworked the two chunks of code above and changed it to the following:

function childtheme_create_stylesheet() { ?>
<?php
$templatedir = get_bloginfo('template_directory');
$stylesheetdir = get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory');
?>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $stylesheetdir ?>/thematic.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $stylesheetdir ?>/style.css" />
<?php }
add_filter('thematic_create_stylesheet', 'childtheme_create_stylesheet');

// Going up code
function goingup() { ?>
<?php
$gu_siteid="bpmzrib";
$gu_param = "st=".$gu_siteid."&ref=".urlencode($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']).
"&vip=".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."&ua=".urlencode($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']).
"&cur=".urlencode("http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])."&b=5";
@readfile("http://counter.goingup.com/phptrack.php?".$gu_param);
 ?>
<?php }
add_filter( 'thematic_after', 'goingup' );

I’m not very familiar with PHP, but making the changes above apparently must be the correct way to write the code. Because once I uploaded the new functions file, everything started working again. I turned off all caching options, turned off debug options, then turned on each caching option (leaving the debug options off), and it worked ok each time – no admin blank page/redirect issues.

Let me know if you need any more details.

As it says in the description, W3TC takes care of this for pages / posts / feeds, so you need to update your directives to only deal with static files like images.

Right, I had forgotten I’d changed that setting in the past. So now I actually don’t have apache handling any of the compression and run everything through W3TC.

But do you have any idea why I’d still be getting blank page errors if I don’t have both database cache option and database debug mode enabled? It seems like it’s interfering with the way some of the admin pages redirect. Thanks.

Hmm, I got the white page error when I clicked submit, but hopefully the message got to you. Can you let me know if you didn’t receive it? My email is rp@rabbitpoets.com. Thanks.

Hi nerrad, you can check out the link here: rabbitpoets.com/staging (just a testing ground for now). The first two posts are part of the same series, but the series meta doesn’t show up until you click on the individual post. I’m using the thematic theme, with the street child theme. Thanks!