Do you get a blank page when editing WordPress? If so this article will help you resolve your issue and get you back to editing your new site! So I recently migrated to a new web hosting company, Inmotion Hosting for this blog and I was setting up the WordPress site and ran into this issue and I wanted to share the steps on how I fixed this on this blog. The WordPress automatic installer that comes with cPanel it makes it nice and easy to install a WordPress site. However, I found that when I try to edit the site after logging into my WordPress dashboard and then navigating to Appearance > Editor (beta) I got a blank page (the URL has site-explorer.php in it but there is nothing on the page). You might be asking yourself, “How do I fix this?”
At first, I thought this was an issue with my web hosting but then I realized that something might be off in my WordPress settings. After doing some research I was able to get the site editor to work. This is great because with WordPress 6 the site editor is sleek and easy use.
I documented the steps I took to fix this issue so that others could get the help they need as well:
- Navigate to your WordPress Dashboard again it’s usually https://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/
- Click on Settings > General from the the left navigation menu
- Under General Settings you will see that your domain does not have the www. prefix
- Add a prefix of www. in front of your domain in the WordPress Address field.
So if you get a blank page when editing WordPress try the above steps. Don’t worry if you run into any issues you can always reach out to me!
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