Fix WordPress Upgrade White Blank Page Problem

Posted by Webmaster Blog 2 August, 2009

WordPress a best blogging platform recently released its one of major release. WordPress has come up with new admin interface and nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in 2.7 than it did in a previous version. As usual users got eager to upgrade their blog to wordpress 2.7.

It is just a day after wordpress 2.7 release and we have already started seeing users reporting issue with WordPress 2.7 Upgrade. One such issue which has been faced by many users is getting white blank page after upgrading to wordpress 2.7. After researching around we have some fix which might help you to solve wordpress 2.7 upgrade white blank page issue and some other issues.

Many users reporting that after upgrading to wordpress 2.7 when they are trying to login to admin dashboard they are greeted with a white Blank page. Thought there is no word from wordpress team about any possibility of bug or issue but some of fixes which might solve this issue are here,

Fix for WordPress White Blank Page Issue

If you are using wp-cache or super-cache plugin then please refresh your cache files and then try to login to wordpress admin dashboard

Fix for WordPress Admin Menu Link Problem.

Renaming index.php file present in wp-plugin directory to index.html.

Fix WordPress all post, pages, website, blog not getting displayed

This issue is because of incompatible WordPress theme. Change your theme from WordPress admin panel to default theme for time being. Double check you theme before proceeding for WordPress Upgrade. Ask Theme author to make it compatible with wordpress.

Please Note:

1. Make sure you have disabled all plugins which are not compactable with wordpress

2. Do backup your whole wordpress blog, database as well as core files.

3. If some thing goes wrong and you need to revert back or say need to downgrade to wordpress 2.6.x or 2.5.x then apply database backup first and then replace wordpress files

4. Read detailed steps for Upgrading WordPress Extended before proceeding for WordPress Upgrade.