Yesterday, after I edited some of the theme files of my WordPress blog and uploaded them to my host, although my blog opened fine in Mozilla Firefox, I met with a surprise when I opened my blog in Internet Explorer. My blog was rendered completely blank. It certainly appeared to have happened due to some incompatibility issues with IE.
I immediately did a “View Source” in IE to check the client side source code of my blog. No wonder, as my WordPress blog was opening fine in Firefox, the source code was present. After investing some time with my theme files again, I was able to track down the problem. The <title> tag was opened but never closed. Firefox does not seem to care whether you close your tags or not but looks like IE requires that you close the tags you open for your pages to render properly.
I have heard Firefox being strict with CSS rules and all; looks like IE is also strict at times.
This fiasco has taught me something and that’s – After you edit the theme files of your WordPress blog, you should always check your blog in all the browsers you have to see if the changes you have made are compatible with different browsers.
However, if all the browsers render your blog blank, you must understand that something big has gone wrong with your blog. Here are some pages from the Internet that offer help in complex scenarios when your WordPress blog is rendered blank:
On most of the cases that I read on the Internet about WordPress going blank, the culprit was either a plugin or changing WordPress host.
