When you see blank page with your WordPress blog you can use my tips to find bug and fix that annoying problem.

1. Turn off all plugins

If you have access to your admin panel you do it from there but if don’t you can always ‘ftp’ your website and move all your plugins to other directory so there will be no plugins active.

2. Change theme to another one (refresh/check)

Remember to turn off cache plugins if you use them, clear your cache.

3. Creates or/and update .htaccess file

You can browse it by linux console for example. If you don’t know how to use ‘ssh’ try to read a little bit on google about it. You can use free Putty software to ssh your files on server.

4. Edit and save post, permalinks…. stuff like that

Update your permalink structure. Just click update in WordPress, don’t change it to other structure, this can be really bad for SEO.

5. Update to newest version of WordPress

6. Check what PHP version you have

@Mittineague said: For PHP errors, I find the easiest way to trouble-shoot when developing a plugin is to make a direct HTTP request for the file. eg domain.com/blog_dir/wp-content/plugins/pluginfile.php
This way will show syntax errors and other PHP error messages.
When the file is OK PHP-wise, you will then see errors like
[WordPress-function name here] not found.
For incompatibility problems though, deactivating and reactivating is the best way, especially now that WordPress “sand boxes” and will show a “could not be activated” message.
And don’t learn the hard way. Back-up, back-up, back-up!

7. Check this out:

WordPress should compress articles (gzip) if browsers ask for them… in my situation this fix my blank page error

8. Check error logs

To find something interesting about your problem try to look for http error log and you will see there which file causes errors.

9. wp-config.php

Edit wp-config.php file (which is WordPress main configuration file) and look for blank lines in the end, sometimes text editors add this line and it can broke WordPress installation.

10. Delete all Akismet spam comments

You can read more about it: Solution for WordPress blank admin page

Point 7 helps me with my CSS gallery.

In the meantime I generate problems with SilenBits and it was blank too….I’ve solved the problem using this fix: Change theme to another one (refresh/check)

So good luck and no WordPress blank pages for you !

We want to reach something like this.

You can see live preview here: Ideal WordPress Footer and you can decide whether you want to have something like this on your blog.

Basically we have 3 parts for this project:

• ‘Sharing is sexy’ plugin
• Author page
• Related post with thumbnails

It’s simple to apply on your own blog but if you have any questions let me know. This soultions works for me so it must work for you as well.

‘Sharing is sexy’

This is very simple to install and the effect in my opinion is amazing.

First you need to go to this location: sexybookmarks and click ‘Download’ button. This is a simple WordPress plugin that you need to upload to your WordPress server and activate using admin panel.

Next you setup your networks and other options using WordPress admin panel. ‘Sharing is sexy’ functionality will appear automatically, you can choose if you want to see it on homepage or only in posts, pages.

If you want to put your bookmarks manually use this code in your theme:

<?php if(function_exists('selfserv_sexy')) { selfserv_sexy(); } ?>

and setup this one using plugin admin page:

Menu Location (in relevance to content):
Above Content | Below Content | Manual Mode

It will work, trust me.

Author page

This is also pretty cool and looks very nice on blogs. To setup this one I use this link: Displaying Author Pic and Bio in Your WordPress Post the Non-Gravatar Way but I made some modifications.

I use static text message ‘about me‘ and put it direct to my WordPress theme code. It means that I took css code from link above and use this php code in my actual theme:

<div class="authbio">
<img src="your_photo_url/images/sample.jpg" alt="" class="alignleft"/>
Put static text in wordpress theme with html tags like <strong> etc...
</div>


CSS code that i’ve added to my theme style.css is:

.authbio{
color: #666;
font-weight: normal;
background: #fff;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
width: 420px;
height:60px;
padding: 8px;
margin-bottom:5px;
}

and this one for image:

img.alignleft {
float:left;
background-color: #fff;
border:1px solid #ccc;
padding: 4px;
margin: 0 7px 2px 0;
display: inline;
}

After small CSS changes it looks like this:

Related post with thumbnails

We need plugin that will match related posts and add preview images to them.

First step is download and active this plugin: YARPP and then use tips from this article:
Display Thumbnails For Related Posts in WordPress.

You need to add this php code to your theme:

<?php if (function_exists('related_posts')){ ?>
<?php related_posts();?>
<?php }?>

Download Related Post Template File from link above and put it to plugins directory and add propere CSS code to your style.css

/* Related Posts */
ol.related-posts {clear:both; text-align:center; margin:10px 0px 0px 0px; padding:0;}
ol.related-posts li{width:120px; float:left; display:inline; margin-right:15px;; padding:0;}
ol.related-posts img{clear:both; padding:5px; background:#F7F7F7; border:1px solid #DDD;}
ol.related-posts a{clear:both; display:block; border:none; text-decoration:none;}
ol.related-posts li{font-size:12px;}

Then all you need to do is activate new tempalte with plugin admin page.

If you have problems let me know, I can help you .. it is pretty easy to implement using link above. Remember that you need to manually add post thumbnails to your posts using custom fields after you setup everything.

You can read more about this website update and tweaking footer and other WordPress stuff :

• iTunes Skins – Web site update Part I
• iTunes Skins – Web site update Part II

Good luck and hope to see some implementation of my ideas in future.