Solution to WordPress Blank Screen of Death After Activating Template
October 12th, 2009I stumbled accross this great post by Colin McNulty – Solution to WordPress Blank Screen of Death after activating my theme started causing all sorts of weirdness.
1 single solitary New Line at the bottom off the file, right after that ?> a Carriage Return & Line Feed in programmers speak. That’s it. You hit the Enter key in one wrong place and the whole pack of cards comes tumbling down!
In Colin’s case it was an extra carriage return in his wp-config.php file after the closing “?>”. In my case the problem was not 1 but 2 extra carriage returns at the end of my theme’s functions.php file.