I encountered the white screen error after upgrading one of the blogs I manage from 2.8.x to 3.0.1<\/p>\n
After trying to “upgrade\u00c2\u00a0automatically” \u00c2\u00a0I got a page that read “Briefly unavailable for\u00c2\u00a0scheduled\u00c2\u00a0maintenance.” I checked back in a minute then got just a white screen whenever I tried to log into the blog. Though the blog\u00c2\u00a0 posts themselves, at the base blog site,\u00c2\u00a0 showed up fine.<\/p>\n
I read posts about deleting blank lines in the functions.php and wp-config.php. Link 1<\/a> and Link 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n None of that worked for me.<\/p>\n Weird, I restored both the website files and database from backup but nothing worked. I think this may be because the database structure itself was changed as part of the upgrade that failed before completion.<\/p>\n What finally worked was just to do a manual WordPress Upgrade.<\/p>\n You can read through the steps in the link below this paragraph. But all I did was download the latest upgrade<\/a>, overwrite all files and folders except for the wp-content folder(copy the files and folders in this folder over individually), and then, in my browser, went back to \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 “my site.com\/blog\/wp-admin” \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 and followed the final steps displayed on the webpage that shows up.<\/p>\n Here is the official link detailing the wordpress upgrade procedure:<\/p>\n http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Updating_WordPress<\/a><\/p>\n Update(Feb 7,2011): I encountered the white screen error after upgrading one of the blogs I manage from 2.8.x to 3.0.1 After trying to “upgrade\u00c2\u00a0automatically” \u00c2\u00a0I got a page that read “Briefly unavailable for\u00c2\u00a0scheduled\u00c2\u00a0maintenance.” I checked back in a minute then got just … Continue reading
\nOn one of my other blog sites I encountered the same error and was able to move forward by just deleting\\moving the .maintenance out of the root of the blog site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"