Forcing WordPress to show error messages

As some of you know I have done a lot of work lately in WordPress. One site I have is a large network of blogs and used to be on WordPress MU and is now using WordPress 3.0+ Multi-site. I recently upgraded to WordPress 3.2.1 and this required upgrading to PHP 5.3. Well this seemed to break some plugins and gave me the dreaded White screen of death. Of course a blank white screen is the best thing to see when you are trying to diagnose something. *sarcasm*

As a developer I just want to be given an error message so I can do what I need to. I had disabled all plugins via the database but it still didn’t work. After doing some googling I figured out that you can actually turn on the WordPress errors!

WARNING: ADVANCED USERS ONLY..

Open up the .htaccess file in your wordpress root directory and at the bottom put:

php_flag display_errors on

And refresh your WordPress site.  This should show you the error messasge and get you WAY further then you would just having a lovely white screen.

Love > Trailer for RHCC

New Series at Rolling Hills – “Love >” from Rolling Hills on Vimeo.

Shot on a 7D and edited in Premiere Pro/ After Effects

Design Inspiration – Business Cards

Smashing Magazine is one of my favorite design related blogs and always has good inspiration for those times you need to get a few ideas. I just redesigned my business cards and once again Smashing Magazaine never fails. The just posted a slew of them and this time they even included some templates to get you started… Check out Business Card Design Starter Kit.

ENTER Series – Video

These are a part of a series of videos I did for Rolling Hills Community Church. These were used in a DVD for the community group material.

RHCC – Wake Up Call

RHCC Youth – Wake Up Call (Saved By The Bell Version) from J.J. Merrick on Vimeo.