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Sometimes a poor setup for wordpress can cause the site to return a blank screen. If you try accessing through /wp-admin/ and it still returns a blank screen then there are generally three causes:

1. A broken .htaccess file
2. A broken theme
3. A plugin causing issues

Go through the following steps to fix this issue:

1. Try removing the .htaccess in the root directory and see if the site works
2. Remove the main theme directory (using FTP access) and see if the site works.
3. If this fails turn off your plugins (by deleting them using FTP if you can’t get in through wp-admin) and again see if the site works.

Had this issue on one site when running Chrome and after much hunting did not find a documented solution. However I did manage to find and correct the issue after a little playing with my code.

The issue ended up being a totally unrelated

Innodb tables are tables within MySQL that should be used instead of MyISAM for numerous reasons, the very least is that their transactional nature means they will not corrupt if you system has to reboot or lose power.

One of the problems is to change your tables from MyISAM to Innodb you need to run the following command:
ALTER TABLE YourDB.wp_posts ENGINE=InnoDB;
Once per table and that means lots of manual typing

I found a script that will create the list of tables for you:
SELECT CONCAT( 'ALTER TABLE `', table_schema, '`.`', table_name, '` ENGINE=InnoDB;' )
FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE ENGINE = 'MyISAM'
AND table_schema NOT
IN (
'information_schema', 'mysql'
)

Which outputs something like:
ALTER TABLE YourDB.wp_bad_behavior… Read the rest

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We moved off your servers months ago due to having the service turned off randomly, god awful support, and when we complained to your quality assurance department they said that your service was just fine. Well it wasn’t, we’re not on you anymore, and we’re not recommending you to anyone anymore.

While realizing we’re a small fish for you we were much bigger having multiple hosting accounts, a dedicated server and two VPS servers. We used your services for years.… Read the rest

If you’re fed up with your comment form fields not lining up properly here’s how to turn the form fields into a table which you can then use CSS to format.

In your theme’s functions.php file add the following code:

<php
add_action( 'comment_form_before_fields', 'uniquename_comment_form_before_fields' );
function uniquename_comment_form_before_fields() {
      echo '<table id="PostCommentTable">';
}
add_action( 'comment_form', 'uniquename_comment_form' );
function uniquename_comment_form() {
      echo '</td></tr></table>';
}
?>

Then in your comments.php file locate the line that reads ‘comment_form()’ and replace with the following:

<?php
$comment_args = array( 'fields' => apply_filters( 'comment_form_default_fields', array(
       'author' => '<tr><td>' .
       '<label for="author">' . __( 'Your Name' ) .