title: Blank page after Wordpress automatic upgrade
link: http://jj.isgeek.net/2008/11/blank-page-after-wordpress-automatic-upgrade/
author: Jj
description: 
post_id: 458
date: 2008/11/20 16:26:54
created_gmt: 2008/11/20 21:26:54
comment_status: open
slug: blank-page-after-wordpress-automatic-upgrade

That's what I googled after I just ran into that problem upgrading my Wordpress instalation using the [WPAU plugin](http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-plugin.html).

As the title mentions, after finishing the process, all I got was blank pages to every URL I asked for :/ .

Using Firebug I got to see that it wasn't just empty content, but I was getting a 500 error!, so I checked the HTTP server's error log and ran into this line:
    
    
    
    
    
    
    2008-11-20 15:57:14: (mod_fastcgi.c.2592) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Fatal error:  
    
    
    
    
    Call to undefined function force_ssl_admin() in wp-settings.php on line 394
    
    
    
    
    

This meant that during the automatic upgrade process not all the files were automatically upgraded :roll: . 

So what I had to do is copy manually all the php files in the root directory, wp-admin and wp-includes, taking care of my wp-config.php and wp-settings.php files :) .

And now we seem to be fully functional again :) .