[SOLVED] How to display errors on a custom theme wordpress white screen of death?

How to display errors on a custom theme wordpress white screen of death?

Such a generic problem would obviously have numerous solutions on the Web, right?

My company uses a custom purchased wordpress template, which worked fine till yesterday, for unknown reasons.

I am perfectly assured this is a template related WSOD, which is problematic, because they still wish to use the same template.

I'd be glad to finally solve the problem, but without error output it is only a wild guess what had happened.

How to hit the nail of the head without the following:

define('WP_DEBUG', true);

or reading the error_log in the root of a host? Because both failed to show anything, with latter being empty.

What are the other commands to force WP to show the error output?

Solution

The configuration of your server will be preventing the errors from being shown even with WP_DEBUG on.

Try this in wp-config.php:

define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false );

This will log the errors to a file inside wp-content titled debug.log.