Note: this article pertains to the self-hosted version of WordPress, available with most paid Web hosting and downloadable for free – not the WordPress.com version. By now, you’ve probably heard that WordPress runs about one-fifth of the world’s Web sites. You may even be familiar with how easy a WordPress-powered site is to manage. But…
Keeping your WordPress site’s backend (plugins, WordPress version, and themes) up to date can be a hassle, especially if you maintain numerous WordPress sites. For years, I wondered why WP doesn’t provide a dashboard option for automatic updating, configurable by update type (i.e., checkboxes for themes, plugins, and WordPress core software). As it turns out,…
In a nutshell: try editing “functions.php”, in your active theme’s folder, to remove empty spaces from the bottom of the document. It worked for me. Allow me to share my experience with the infamous “WordPress White Screen of Death”. In four solid years of working with WordPress, I had somehow been fortunate enough never to…
