Blank WordPress Dashboard Screen?
When you log in to your WordPress dashboard, are you seeing a blank white screen, with only the dashboard menu items on the left hand side? Possible Cause: Your hosting company may have recently upgraded to the latest PHP version. Contributing cause: You may be running a version of WordPress that has not been updated in a long time, perhaps more than a year or two. To fix it, try the process outlined below. IMPORTANT: In order to use these steps, you must have FTP access to your website. It is highly recommended that you have a backup copy of your website downloaded to your computer before beginning this process. Our backup plugin of choice is Backup Buddy. We have included the backup procedure in the steps below: Here are the general steps we have successfully used on several occasions to solve the issue: Log into your WordPress dashboard so that you can view the blank screen. Log in to your website through FTP. Change the name of your htaccess file to x-htacces