I’ll research and test this pair of themes together with the plugin right away. And report back here as soon as I know anything of use.
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Emma_K
(@emma_k)
Thanks. I also just tried it with another theme I was thinking of using for the art page, Spun, and the same thing happened, blank page.
I tested the current version of Mantra and Version 1.5.6, and both worked for me with Gridster-Lite and my plugin. What version of Mantra are you using?
The blank page is known as the WordPress White Screen of Death (WSoD) and is discussed here:
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Common_WordPress_Errors
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/User:Sivel/FAQ
The best place to start is changing the statement in wp-config.php to read:
define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, true);
There are some PHP error reporting parameters, too, but this should get you started.
I should also mention that an alternative to using my plugin is to use a separate WordPress site for the /art/ subfolder. This can be done with a second install of WordPress, or by converting your existing site to a WordPress Network (“Multisite”) and adding a second site in the /art/ subfolder.
However, I did not click “activate” as I feared that would change the theme on all my other pages at http://www.emmastangl.com, and delete the customizations I made to Mantra (which I did 2 years ago and completely forget how to do…)
Good instincts! That is a significant risk.
I’m not sure how to recover the settings, but I would definitely want to backup your WordPress database, and the wp-content/themes/mantra/ folder, and keep them “forever” someplace really safe.
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Emma_K
(@emma_k)
I will look at this other info later because it’s getting into details i’m not familiar with (multisite?!)
Let me first try testing with your version of Mantra. Then you can worry 🙂
OK, I’ve tried your version of Mantra with the current version of Gridster Lite (you are using the current version of Gridster Lite, right?). It works fine for me on my test system.
Next step would be changing to define( 'WP_DEBUG', true); as described above and in the documentation. That won’t fix the problem, but it might give us something, in terms of a clue to the problem, more than a blank screen.
In case I’m not around when you answer, the next step after WP_DEBUG is Plugins. I’ll need a list of your activated Plugins, so I can install all of them on my Test System.
And you may want to test with all plugins except mine disabled, just to see if another plugin is the issue.
