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For three hours today my site develop.alltomtrav.info was all WHITE. I tried to switch theme from Newspaper to Twentyeleven and it worked. Then I switched back to Newspaper and all WHITE again. Now after three hours the site is back (partly) it seems all pages works but not my start page. It only shows header and menue. NOT the background, the page and the footer. Weird weird…. 🙁

If I change startpage it looks fine now. But I can not use the startpage i created, the one that I want.

I have deactivated all the plugins but that didnt help.

Anyone who can see if there is anything wrong with the content in my startpage?:

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Best bet is to
First check your wp-config and htaccess to see if something got “munched” there.

1) make a backup of your dbase from phpmyadmin from hosting account
2) make backup of WP data from your wp admin panel if you can login; and backup your wp-config.php and .htaccess file if you use one for permalinks.
3) turn off all plugins
4) turn off the Newspaper theme; go back to default “twenty-something”
5) reinstall wordpress via FTP proper way; re-upload theme files via FTP
6) make sure site works with default theme
7) preview newspaper theme
8) activate theme; turn on only “required” plugins

It sounds like you have something broken unrelated to theme.
Also check your permission on whether the ftp owner or Apache ‘owns’ your content, as this can cause major headaches, and I’ve found having your WP install ‘owned’ by Apache/server just doesn’t work properly. This is something to check with your hosting provider, or via your hosting account site panel for the file viewer which will show “owner” for each folder in your root public folder.

Hope that helped. Often best to ‘clean house’ when you’re having problems you can’t trace back to any one thing.

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

THANKS!
But… it works fine with other themes…

Only thing that dont work is one of my start pages when I use Newspaper theme 🙁
Well… I will try to build a new one

Oh. Sorry… thought you’d borked the whole thing being white. I didn’t read that very well, did I ? 😉

Maybe check the admin > settings >
and make sure your home page is set as a blog and not a custom page while doing the changeover. That one got me once.

THANKS Marius but it did not work 🙁

http://develop.alltomtrav.info
Still just header and menu on startpage. No background pic, footer or content. All other pages is perfect. Maybe Ill try to build a new startpage – just hoping it will not happen again

Now I removed the Big Slider on the startpage and NOW it works!!!!

Any clue from this Marius or anyone else???

Hm. Might be mis-configured slides like a missing closing bracket on something, missing image, or the image is too large (each image should not be larger than 35kb max realistically)… dunno. Usually it’s something simple like that.

Thanks Chris.I will check. But getting a big slide image down to 35kb…. I dont know how to do that

Photoshop or GIMP for the image, if you’re using an image slide.

In Photoshop you would typically do something like this
1) save for web
2) jpeg – quality 40 (start with)
3) progressive on
4) blur amount “2”
5) copyright/meta data = none
6) adjust quality down to 20 as needed; avoid images with a lot of red which don’t compress well.

OR: if using PNG for non images, start with PNG-8 and 64 shades dithered.

For GIMP or other editing tools, consult the user docs.

My thinking on the image size would be a “timeout” loading the images into the slides array (too much info) — say, if you had a 1MB image file, it would choke on that.

This is likely NOT the cause, but it’s just something to check as I have seen sites “time out” due to the featured large image being so large that PHP gives up and then rest of page won’t load.

Again, probably NOT the cause — just thinking out loud on that. 🙂

Anyone else have a clue? When I use the Big Slider the page dont show up 🙁

THANKS! Mail sent