Solving the White Screen Of Death
Oct.18, 2007 in
Tips
Here’s a tip on solving the dreaded White Screen of Death that some Wordpress bloggers get when we mess around with the templates file or after we upgraded our Wordpress version.
I was inspired to do this video after seeing problogger LiewCF.com encountering the same white screen of death problem too. Since I am an ex-PHP programmer, this is right up my alley 
The code for tester.php :-
<?
ini_set(’display_errors’,'1′);
ini_set(’display_startup_errors’,'1′);
error_reporting (E_ALL);include(’index.php’);
?>
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October 21st, 2007 at 11:19 pm
thanks for the effort of creating the video
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:10 am
You are most welcomed LiewCF. Having you come over and take a look at it is an honor !
December 2nd, 2007 at 1:02 am
This is a meaningful post for me. It does educate me in a way that I don’t actually want t0 remember.
December 7th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Wow that’s a better solution than that I use… changing header.php (and revert when everything is OK)… this way you call tester.php to get error messages and you can keep them for future…
February 7th, 2008 at 6:32 am
Thank you thank you thank you! Now off to diagnose my white screen of death!!!!
February 9th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Jalaj and dawn:
Great!! I didn’t know people were still reading this post. I hope it helps both of you!
April 16th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
unfortunately I live in China and they limit foreign bandwidth so I cant get your video, if you get time to do a step by step thing in text that would be very cool! I have this white screen of death right now on one of my blogs that I just moved to a new host… argh
April 29th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Hey ,m8 great video,thanks for this. And btw you are missing <?php at the beginning of the code in the post.
April 29th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Thanks for spotting that. Fixed!
September 24th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Bro! you saved my life!
I keep looking at the white screen of death for the whole day and googled a hundred miles. I nearly pull all my hair out (not that I got alot).
Thanks a million.
Cheers