What to do if your WordPress-driven site goes blank?

WordPress is a popular blogging software. It is now being increasingly used to manage website.

If you have a WordPress-driven website and your websites goes blank, try this.

Are you able to log-in to WordPress Admin?

If yes, access your site directory via FTP, and see whether Themes folders is in wp-content directory. 

Upload the themes folders (you do have a backup right?) and try reload the website.
Your WordPress-driven website should be restored.

Today, I help a tech-savvy client whose websites goes blank after updating a WordPress plug-in. While viewing the source code, the code is empty.

First, I try deactivating WordPress plug-ins that cause the problems. This does not work.

Next, I try to purge the WordPress database and upload a fresh new one (i.e. a backup of sql file). Neither this works.

Finally, I decide to do the above. Access the website directory via FTP to see what files are missing.

For some reason, the themes folders go missing.

Take-Away

It advisable and good practice NOT to test or update plug-ins, themes on the live website.

Allocate on the same webhost the same WordPress site and do any theme, plug-in updates to assess before making the changes on your live site.

Lastly, backup every thing.