Theme working locally, not when uploaded

  • Resolved emmaechter

    (@emmaechter)


    16 years ago

    Hi everyone.

    I’m a newbe wp user, but have used joomla extensively, so am fairly familiar with cms templating/themes.

    I am working on my second wp theme. The first went without a hitch. The second is being more difficult.

    I have the theme I created running locally without any problems. I have exported my sql and have all my content uploaded to the live site. When i use my theme on the live site, i get a blank page.

    The connection and the content is working correctly, because when i turn on the default theme, it works.

    I’m having alot of trouble figuring out where this is wrong – because it’s working in my testing envrionment!

    Is there a simple setting I have missed? Not much point posting a link, because to blank page!

    Thanks.

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  • randinicole

    (@randinicole)

    16 years ago

    Yes there is a point in posting the link to the blank page. You said the content and such is working, perhaps your paths to images and such are wrong, if you activate the theme and link it I can take a look at it. Trust me it will help. The theme should work just fine.

    Thread Starter emmaechter

    (@emmaechter)

    16 years ago

    Thanks randinicole, here’s the link;

    http://www.designmagpie.com/blog/

    I thought it would be useless, as even the source code of the page is blank.

    I know the links are working, you can see from a couple of the links in the code which i’ve pulled out here;

    http://www.designmagpie.com/img/DM_Logo.jpg – and they are being returned off the external server to my local install without trouble too.

    I have used wp only for the blog section, which is why the link is not to the theme images…

    randinicole

    (@randinicole)

    16 years ago

    Have you tried to deactivate all the plugins and reactivate them.

    That is really strange and out of my league. I have had that happen to me a few times but I just switched themes, deactivated plugins and reactivated them and then switched back.

    Thread Starter emmaechter

    (@emmaechter)

    16 years ago

    thanks for looking…

    Just tried deactivating plugins (not using any – but deactivated the standard ones…) Didn’t change it.

    Might have to leave it for a while and come back to it later.

    The only difference between the installs are the db user and pass.

    Hopefully if I stop looking at it for a while, I’ll be able to come back and find the problem!

    randinicole

    (@randinicole)

    16 years ago

    Sorry I cannot be of more help.

    randinicole

    (@randinicole)

    16 years ago

    http://silentbits.com/wordpress/blank-page-with-wordpress-howto-fix-that/

    This might be of some help

    Thread Starter emmaechter

    (@emmaechter)

    16 years ago

    thanks, but i don’t think it’s an install problem, as the default theme is working, so it must be something in my theme.

    Thread Starter emmaechter

    (@emmaechter)

    16 years ago

    Okay, found it.. thanks for the link, sparked the right kind of thinking!

    It was a php error – in my else clause, i didn’t have the php search function being called, just text, so either need to include the text as an echo, or the search form, otherwise, there is no function being called when I say ‘or else…’ and it causes an error 🙂

    ah, logic.

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