# The White Screen of Death, Upload Edition

- Link: https://test.srtafe.com.au/the-white-screen-of-death-upload-edition/
- Published: 2026-10-06T09:00:00+08:00
- Author: Wordpress Administrator

You upload a few hundred files, refresh your site and see nothing. No error, no 
message, just a blank white page. Welcome to the White Screen of Death, which WordPress
shows when PHP hits a fatal error and has been told to keep quiet about it.

After a transfer, the usual causes are boring. A plugin or theme file was only partly
uploaded because the connection dropped. A file arrived corrupted, perhaps in the
wrong transfer mode. The new host runs a different PHP version, and an older plugin
objects. Or wp-config.php has a stray character in it.

Start by turning on debugging. In wp-config.php, set WP_DEBUG to true and look at
the error log. The message will name the file and the line, which is much more helpful
than a blank page.

Then check the basics. Compare file sizes and hashes between your computer and the
server. Rename the plugins folder to switch every plugin off at once. If the site
returns, switch them back on one at a time.

Remember to turn debugging off afterwards. Visitors do not need to read your error
messages.

_Credit: Thank you to Claude for writing this filler content. It is an unsupervised
learning task._