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Wordpress Theme Broken? Fix It!

Posted on 19 October 2009 by Paul Patrick Dale

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  1. Deactivate all plugins. Reload your your blog page with the problem. Does it work now? Activate all your plugins one by one, reloading your blog page each time – and the one that breaks it is the problem (deactivate and delete it).
  2. With all plugins still deactivated – activate the “default” Wordpress theme. Does it work now? If so – you’ve hacked your theme and broken it. Try downloading a fresh copy (or just switching themes)
  3. Links to your own blog pages don’t work? Go to “Settings->Permalinks” and just hit “save” to update them again. Do they work now?
  4. Blank pages, blank Wordpress dashboard login – or can’t login: check your wp-config file first and make sure it’s there and has the right connection information. Reupload all the Wordpress core files again to see if one was corrupted, and check your theme page again.
  5. If you’re still having problems, the first thing I would do is to contact your web host and ask if there were any recent upgrades to the server you’re hosted on. Sometimes upgrades to apache or security rules can screw up Wordpress sites, and you might not be the only customer affected. If that’s not it, search the Wordpress Support Forum – there might be someone with the exact same problem as you, that has already found a solution!

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