{"id":54,"date":"2009-06-02T01:31:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T06:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yupingliu.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/02\/wordpress-administrative-pages-blank\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T02:58:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T07:58:26","slug":"wordpress-administrative-pages-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yupingliu.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/02\/wordpress-administrative-pages-blank\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Administrative Pages Blank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this post, I am diverting from my main blog theme to share a technical issue that I encountered with WordPress.\u00a0 Tonight, I opened up WordPress to write a new blog.\u00a0 To my dismay, the administrative pages for WordPress showed up as completely blank pages, even though my actual blog was displayed correctly.\u00a0 After searching the Internet and going through a few trials and errors, I finally found the solution to the problem: the functions.php file in the folder that contains the theme used cannot have blank lines on the top or at the bottom.\u00a0 Deleting those blank spaces brought my administrative pages back.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sharing this with my readers in case anyone runs into the same problem in the future.\u00a0 During my research, I also learned that another common reason for such blank pages is the wp-cache plug-in. 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