Blank page after activation

• jobo21

• September 12, 2014 at 9:25 pm

Hello!

When I install the Advanced Custom Fields Plugin and want to activate it in the Backend, it shows an empty page. All pages of my site go blank.

I already emptied the cache.

When I set the wp_debug to true, it doesn’t show any errors..

Would be very glad for any help!

Greetings from Germany 🙂

• jobo21

• September 16, 2014 at 12:45 am

Would really appreciate any help.

I tried everything!

• tictac

• September 16, 2014 at 2:19 am

try this:

1. Change a template folder name. e.g. (mythemefolder to mythemefolder-blah)
2. Go to the administrative view.
3. Activate the plugin.
4. Change back the template folder name.

You installed the latest plugin but it might fail to activate the plugin.

• jobo21

• September 16, 2014 at 2:27 am

Thanks for your answer!

I will try it today in the night-time, when no users are online.

I think I found out the problem, just tried some hours..

I think the problem is, that the Theme author already integrated ACF inside the theme:

Because in the functions.php it says

include_once( ‘admin/acf/acf.php’ );
include_once( ‘admin/acf/acf-fields.php’ );

He uses it to display the choice for the sidebar.

ACF is in the “admin” folder of the theme..

Is there a way to use ACF in the Backend (Where it is not displayed right now) without deleting everything from ACF in the theme?

I just can’t reach the settings page form the backend…

• tictac

• September 18, 2014 at 4:50 am

Yes. If ACF is pre-integrated into the theme, it just gives you a blank white screen. By changing the theme name, it forces WordPress to use the default theme.