My WordPress installation is still fuxxored in some way. The last few days I’ve been restoring the wp/ directory from a backup, which fixes it, but then it goes back to blank pages overnight. It is to sigh. Advice welcome. This afternoon I’m going to do as clean a reinstall as I can.

Update

I think I fixed it. If you’re getting blank pages after upgrading to WordPress 2.3.1, here’s the solution I found with (too much) digging in the WP wiki. By way of explanation:

“By doing this, two new values, DB_CHARSET and DB_COLLATE, are placed into the wp-config.php file. Those lines should be deleted from your wp-config.php if you are upgrading from a pre-Version 2.2 (like 2.0.10 or 2.1.3) to Version 2.3.1. A detailed explanation about DB_CHARSET and DB_COLLATE can be found in Editing wp-config.php.”

and then on Editing_wp-config.php

Warning for those performing upgrades: If DB_CHARSET and DB_COLLATE do not exist in your wp-config.php file, DO NOT add either definition to your wp-config.php file unless you read and understand Converting Database Character Sets. Adding DB_CHARSET and DB_COLLATE to the wp-config.php file, for an existing blog, can cause problems ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù as Ryan Boren says, “your queries will go boom!”

ORLY. KTHX 4 TEH INF0.

See, when I upgraded I noticed those new lines in wp-config-sample.php and added them to my wp-config.php. I hope “queries go boom” doesn’t mean my database is fuxxored. I’m going to restore from my backup just in case. In conclusion, take out the db_charset and db_collate lines and your WP install will work again.

Another update

Sigh. Still trying to get this to work. I’ve downgraded to v2.2.3 in the hope that it’s just a 2.3.1 problem.

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