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Lockdown Day 20 – WordPress White Wall of Death Troubleshooting Made Simple

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One of the most common problems with a WordPress Site is the White Wall of Death from incompatible plugins etc.

https://youtu.be/6M0tldm_h6s

Here I show you MY METHOD of logical troubleshooting which basically involves identifying which plugins or themes have been modified most recently, taking them out of the system whilst NOT having access to WP-Admin, and then troubleshooting further to get your web site back.

WordPress is a very popular Open Source CMS that millions of web sites run on.

At last count – around 74.6 Million Sites depend on WordPress. WordPress has 61.8% of the Content Management System (CMS) market share.

The WordPress CMS took an estimated effort of over 112 person-years to develop the 423,759 lines of code that make up the CMS.

There Are 4 000+ Free GPL-licensed Themes for WordPress.

There Are 54,000+ Free Plugins for WordPress.

From the above stats you can see that being able to control, manage and troubleshoot a WordPress web site could possibly become a nightmare.

WordPress users includes companies such as: TechCrunch TED, CNN, Spotify, NBC Sports, Gigaom, UPS, CBS Radio, TechCrunch, The New Yorker, BBC America, Bloomberg Professional, The Official Star Wars Blog, Variety, Sony Music, MTV News, Beyonce, PlayStation.Blog, Sweden’s Official Website, Microsoft News Center, Boingo, Bata, cPanel Blog, Quartz, Usain Bolt, The Walt Disney Company, Time Inc, Facebook Newsroom, The New York Times Company, Marks & Spencer for Business, Official Rackspace Blog, ExpressJet Blog, Inside BlackBerry, Rotary Means Business – Rotary Club, The Rolling Stones, The Walking Dead – AMC, The Mozilla Blog, The Wall Street Journal Law Blog, Wil Wheaton, Snoop Dogg, AP News Center, Wolverine Worldwide, Reuters Blogs, Katy Perry, Vogue India, Mercedes-Benz, Staples Canada Blog, Harvard Gazette Online and Pulse by Target.

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Alan Straton

Chief Cook, Bottle Washer and Broom Mechanic at MyPE
Passionate about Port Elizabeth and definitely NOT packing for Perth. Alan's ethos is epitomised in the words of Nelson Mandela; "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." See more articles by Alan.