Last night and into the early hours this morning, I worked on setting up the new Encoded Designs site. My ISP offers an Installatron script for installing WordPress with a click of a button. The install was a snap, and in 5 minutes I had a site up and running.

DNAphil 1 ; WordPress 0

Then I tried to install some themes to give the site a look and feel that would be more to my taste. I found a number of great themes available and grabbed one to install. When I did, the site went blank. Nothing. No content, just a blank page. I have tried to find a solution for this online, but have not had much luck. I wound up falling asleep in front of the computer, and woke up and dragged myself to bed, without resolving the issue. So for now, the site will exist in it’s default theme.

DNAphil 1; WordPress 1

I have posted a question on the WordPress forums, so hopefully someone can come to my rescue and help me get a theme up and running.

Epilogue (11:28pm):

So 20 minutes after I posted on the WordPress fourms, I got the help I needed.  With a few posts going back and forth, a helpful WP user keyed me in that my problem was likely an FTP issue.  I did a little checking, and sure enough all the PHP files that I had FTP to the site were blank.  So I downloaded FileZilla and did a much better push of the theme folder to my website, and now we have this cool black theme.

Since it was my fault and not the WordPress software, I am taking their point away from them.

Final score:  DNAphil 1, WordPress 0