I recently did some tweaking to my themes functions.php file and upgraded WordPress on my hosting. The upgrade went well, but I have a problem when I try to login to the control panel of my blog. When I load wp-login.php and I insert my username and the password, the only thing I get is a Blank Page. No error messages, only a Blank Page. It happens with Explorer, Firefox, Opera, etc.

I searched several websites and found the solution, so now I’ll share it with you. From what I read, this is a common problem many wordpress users face.

Blank Pages

Blank pages are usually php errors, so look at your error logs to see why it’s crashing. Where can you see your error logs?  You can access your error logs via ftp or at your host control center you need to look at the logs to see why php is crashing. I didn’t see any errors in my log, so I followed this suggestion:

“I was having a similar problem with my site. I searched high and low and followed all the recommendations (disabled plugins, checked wp-config.php, checked for trailing blank line in wp-login/wp-admin php files, etc). It wasn’t until I went into my DB and reverted to the default theme that I started taking a hard look at the theme I was running (boldlines). I noticed there was a blank line at the end of the theme’s functions.php. I removed the blank line and everything started to work just fine.”

I re-uploaded my current themes original functions.php file and that fixed my issue, everything works correctly and I was able to login to the admin area. It appears that when I was doing some tweaking to my functions.php file I left an extra space in it, I never would have thought an extra space would cause such a serious problem.

Just in case this solution doesn’t work for you, here are some other possible solutions to your wordpress login.php blank page issue:

1. having multiple php lines like this: <?php  ?> will also make the wp-admin crash.
2. If its a plugin that crashed, try renaming your plugins folder, and it will work. You’ll have to reinstall each plugin 1 at a time until you can locate the plugin that caused the crash.

One of these three solutions should work for solving your blank page issue, if not I suggest searching for a solution on wordpress.org.

If you know of any other solutions, leave your comment below.

Be sure to check out some of my other great wordpress articles on my home business and plr membership website MakeCashNow.biz.

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